Man accused of murdering teens
A man was tonight charged with the murder of two teenagers in the North five years ago.
The 25-year-old was arrested in Co Tyrone on Monday in connection with the stabbing of Andrew Robb, 19, and 18-year-old David McIlwaine.
A police spokeswoman confirmed he will appear before Armagh Magistrates on Friday.
The teenagers were killed in February 2000 after leaving a nightclub in Tandragee, Co Armagh, and their bodies dumped at the side of a country road.
Although several arrests have been made, no-one has ever been convicted of the murders.
Detectives are tonight still questioning one man over the double murder.
The frenzied attack on the pair, both from Portadown, came at the height of a loyalist paramilitary feud in the area.
An Ulster Volunteer Force chief was killed outside his home in Portadown a month earlier, and the teenagers were targeted amid fears of a retaliation against the rival Loyalist Volunteer Force.
But police and both victims’ families have stressed neither were LVF members.
The arrests followed a reconstruction on the BBC’s Crimewatch programme last week, when a £10,000 (€14,900) reward for information was offered.
