A British man was lured into hurling bombs at Irish police by a dissident Republican posing online as a Swedish supermodel.

Christine Connor used a fake online profile to pose as Swedish model Sanne Andersson in a bid to lure Stuart Downes, from Shrewsbury, into joining her terrorist plot to kill police officers.

The 31-year-old, from north Belfast, used a fictitious name and profile picture that "bore no resemblance to her" to entice her suspected accomplice, who later took his own life.

Acing as a lone wolf, Connor lured police on a hoax call as Downes lay in wait and hurled two pipe bombs at the them in May 2013.