26/03/2007

Ihab Shoukri back in jail

Loyalist leader Ihab Shoukri has been returned to jail over new charges relating to handling stolen property.

Shoukri, 33, was arrested while on bail on charges relating to a police raid on a north Belfast bar.

Shoukri, who had initially been released on bail in January on the condition that he live in England, had until then been in custody since the raid on the bar. Although his bail conditions were subsequently altered to allow him to return to a house in Larne, Northern Ireland, he now faces having his original bail application revoked.

The public prosecution service are understood to be drawing up an application to have bail revoked in connection to charges relating to a robbery in Larne.

(SP/KMcA)

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