A 43-year-old man was today charged in Northern Ireland with perverting the course of justice and withholding information during an investigation into the murder of a man in an arson attack.
Thomas O'Hare, aged 33, and his 21-year-old girlfriend Lisa McClatchey were doused in petrol and set alight by a gang at their home in Tassagh, near Keady in Co Armagh on Monday night.
Miss McClatchey remains in a serious condition in Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital.
Police on both sides of the Irish border have been probing a link between the attack and the appearance at a hospital in Dundalk on the southern side one hour later of four brothers with burns.
The four men were transferred to St James's Hospital in Dublin where they have been receiving treatment for serious 35 per cent to 55 per cent degree burns.
The man charged in Northern Ireland is due to appear at Newry Magistrates' Court tomorrow.