Also charged with conspiracy were Joseph Mulcahy, 54, and his fianc? Maureen Lewis, 49, of Chester-le-Street, Co Durham.Mr Mulcahy also faces a charge of deception against the HFC bank on 30 August 2000. Malcolm Grier, 61, was also charged with deception.Mr Foley, a former police constable based in Gateshead, Tyneside, was suspended from duty by Northumbria Police when the investigation began. He retired from the force in May after 30 years of service.The five suspects are due to appear in court on Friday.. Detectives hunting for a Scottish man who raped and murdered an 87-year-old woman believe he is in southern England.

Both were attacked in their homes in the Ferguslie Park area of Paisley in 1987.The court heard that six months after attacking the 79-year-old, Crawford broke into Mrs Lynch’s home on Christmas Eve 1987, as she returned from the funeral of her son, and raped her, causing such severe injuries that she died a week later. He was released on bail after his lawyers argued that the DNA samples used as the basis of the prosecution case against him should have been ruled inadmissible in court as they were gathered in connection with another offence.The samples were taken during a drugs raid on his home three years ago. It was only when the information was run through a national database that they were found to match evidence linking him to the attacks 13 years earlier.. A holiday jaunt ended in fear for three teenage Romans when a man who had befriended them convinced them that he was the son of a suspected mafia supremo, Bernardo Provenzano, extorted money from them and forced them to drive him from Amsterdam to Sicily, one of the students said.

Police traced them there through calls made on Mattia’s mobile phone, and arrested the suspect.Mr Provenzano, 79, believed to be boss of all Sicily’s Cosa Nostra, has been in hiding for 39 years.. Austria’s extreme-right Freedom Party is sinking into a bout of mud-slinging after the disastrous flooding that swept across the country. “J?Haider used to always have a very good sense of what the population was feeling, and I would really recommend that he took heed of the mood in the country. Everyone understands this.”But Mr Haider, the self-declared champion of the ordinary man on the street, said the decision was “hardly bearable because I am used to honouring my promises”.Mr Haider initially called for a special Freedom Party convention to discuss the postponement of the reforms. He stepped down as leader amid international criticism of his party’s entry into national government, but has continued to pull the strings from the southern stronghold of Carinthia, where he is governor.This time, however, his successor as party head, Susanne Riess-Passer, did not follow his call. Mrs Riess-Passer said she stood by the decision to postpone tax reforms, adding that if Mr Haider’s wish for a convention was granted she would no longer “be available” as party head.She received the backing of several senior figures, such as the parliamentary leader Peter Westenthaler, who said he would “stand and fall” with the party leader.Mr Haider then threatened a “total withdrawal” of his support for the Freedom Party It was not the first time he had done so.