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27/09/2010
Court Date Over Border Weapons
A man has been charged with terrorism offences after a weapons' find in Co Down.
The 54-year-old will be in court in connection with a "significant" firearms seizure, the PSNI have said.
He was arrested on Friday in the border city of Newry by detectives investigating dissident republican activity and is due to appear at Newry Magistrates Court on Monday.
He will face a number of charges including possession of articles likely to be of use to terrorists, and possession of firearms and ammunition.
NI Policing Board member Jonathan Bell has stated the community will welcome the seizure of weapons.
The Strangford MLA said: "Our community has chosen life and a peaceful democratic future.
"Sadly their remains a minority who with their fascist death ideologies regard it as acceptable to blow up children in Lurgan, attempt to murder a policewoman as she straps a child into a baby seat and leave pipe bombs in primary schools.
"They are cowardly and on the wrong side of reason and democracy. It should be remembered that the threat risk assessment in Northern Ireland remains severe," he said, noting that the "right response is for the community to deprive the terrorists of their ability to operate".
"It is for the police then to seek out the terrorist weaponry and structures and make amenable to the courts those determined to enforce death on a community that has chosen life," the DUP politician said.
(BMcC/GK)
The 54-year-old will be in court in connection with a "significant" firearms seizure, the PSNI have said.
He was arrested on Friday in the border city of Newry by detectives investigating dissident republican activity and is due to appear at Newry Magistrates Court on Monday.
He will face a number of charges including possession of articles likely to be of use to terrorists, and possession of firearms and ammunition.
NI Policing Board member Jonathan Bell has stated the community will welcome the seizure of weapons.
The Strangford MLA said: "Our community has chosen life and a peaceful democratic future.
"Sadly their remains a minority who with their fascist death ideologies regard it as acceptable to blow up children in Lurgan, attempt to murder a policewoman as she straps a child into a baby seat and leave pipe bombs in primary schools.
"They are cowardly and on the wrong side of reason and democracy. It should be remembered that the threat risk assessment in Northern Ireland remains severe," he said, noting that the "right response is for the community to deprive the terrorists of their ability to operate".
"It is for the police then to seek out the terrorist weaponry and structures and make amenable to the courts those determined to enforce death on a community that has chosen life," the DUP politician said.
(BMcC/GK)
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