POLICE investigating the killing of father-of-two Freddie Knights have arrested two more men.

Craig Ronald Shephard, 27, of Slatyford, Newcastle, and Paul Boyd Overton, 40, of Longbenton, Newcastle, have been charged with assisting an offender.

They appeared before Newcastle magistrates yesterday and will reappear at a later date.

Mr Knights, 38, was gunned down outside his mother's home, in Langdale Close, Lonbenton, last September.