A man is due in court today accused of murdering an alleged drugs boss in Co Derry.
Paddy Fleming (40) was stabbed to death at a flat in Coleraine on Sunday. The father of two had been at the centre of a major financial investigation by the Assets Recovery Agency.
The authority had seized control of his luxury home on the outskirts of the town, stables and 15 horses as part of a move against an empire it claimed had been amassed through drug dealing.
Nearly £500,000 worth of assets was frozen by the agency after it took its case to the Northern Ireland High Court in December 2004.
But the family of Mr Fleming, who was a well-known horse dealer, insisted he had been wrongly branded a criminal.
The 25-year-old man charged with his murder is to appear at Ballymena Magistrates' Court this morning.