£5.5k spent to transfer killer

THE authorities paid over £5,500 (€6,650) to hire a private plane for serial child killer Robert Black’s trial, it has been revealed.

Black, aged 64, received “Rolls-Royce treatment” as he was transported for trial from England.

The paedophile must serve a minimum of 25 years for murdering Jennifer Cardy, aged 9, who was snatched as she cycled to a friend’s house in Ballinderry, Co Antrim, in 1981.