A reader sent us this a link to this Independent.ie story, and they commented:

Look at paragraph 10 - since when is there a county Belfast?! Saw this in the printed edition this morning and thought they may have fixed it online but no, the error is still there. [Par 10, as we found it says: "It is still not clear whether the trial will be held in Co Belfast or Co Antrim."]

Even more amazing than that (and I can’t believe they didn’t even mention this) is that a ghost turned up to court! If you look two pars down from the above, you’ll see it says “Ms. Howell’s elderly father Sam…sat at the opposite end of the gallery”. Now how could he have done that if, as according to the last par, “he had collapsed and died at his son-in-law’s house in Coleraine 12 days earlier”? Freaky stuff!

Even if the Irish Independent were not implying a ghost turned up in court, it’s very hard to know who the paper is referring to in the fourth last paragraph, which says: ”Ms Howell’s elderly father Sam, his two sisters Pauline and Maud, and his brother Jim sat at the opposite end of the gallery” when the last paragraph includes: “…where Ms Howell’s father lived. He had collapsed and died at his son-in-law’s house in Coleraine 12 days earlier.” There’s currently nothing in the online copy which explains this.