A 30-year-old man is expected to appear before a special court in Newtownards in County Down today.
He is charged with the murder of a man knifed to death in his home in Ballygowan.
The man, named by the RUC as Mr Joseph McQuade, 59, was found dead at a house on the Magherascouse Road in Comber.
The attack is not believed to have been sectarian.