Leslie Ross, from County Down, questioned in connection with deaths in 2007 and 2012, as well as other possible offences
A man has been charged with the murders of two former partners in Northern Ireland. Leslie Ross, 66, a stonemason, from Dromore, County Down, is due to appear in court in Armagh on Friday, police said.
Ross is accused of the murders of Michelle Bickerstaff, 47, and Margaret Weise, 50. He has been in custody since Tuesday, when he was arrested at his home. Police removed a number of items from the house.
Weise died in August 2007, and Bickerstaff died in April last year.
Ross, whose family was once heavily connected to the licensing trade, was previously questioned by police and released without charge.
As part of the new inquiry, he was also interviewed about other offences, apparently involving other, as yet unidentified women.
He was also questioned about the suspicious death of mother of one Lily McKee, 52, a divorcee and former beauty queen who died in December 2002. She also lived in Dromore.
Police said a file on that investigation would be submitted to the director of public prosecutions.
