21.   Det Supt Albert Kirby, the man in charge of the murder inquiry, said that the two boys they had arrested were from the Walton area of Liverpool.

22.   The investigation is being led by Det Supt Eric John, and the murder inquiry will mark the third unsolved killing in the Lothians in the last five weeks.

23.   A police spokeswoman said an incident room had been set up at West Hendon police station but that the investigation had not become a murder inquiry.

24.   The murder inquiry has been repeatedly sidetracked by disputes and scandals that have forced the resignations of a justice minister, a police chief and other officials.

25.   But the incident still was being treated as a murder inquiry because he had been assaulted immediately before he fell under the bus, Plimmer said.

26.   In wrapping up his case, Campbell presented the most complete reconstruction of the crime given since investigators began what became the biggest murder inquiry in British history.

27.   Police said Sunday they were launching a murder inquiry after seven people, including five young sisters, died in a suspicious house fire.

28.   The Foreign Office refused comment on a report Monday by the official Libyan news agency, JANA, that Libya has offered to help Britain with the murder inquiry.

29.   West Yorkshire Police have launched a murder inquiry.

30.   West Yorkshire Police launched a murder inquiry after fire gutted a terraced stone house in the Birkby area of Huddersfield, northern England, early Sunday morning.