09/06/2014

Man In Court On Terrorism Charges

A 38-year-old man has appeared in court charged with membership of the IRA.

Thomas Ashe Mellon, from Rathmore Road in L'Derry, is charged by police with being a member or a proscribed organisation.

Detectives from the PSNI's Serious Crime Branch investigating dissident republican terrorism in the city arrested Mr Mellon in the early hours of Friday 6 June in north Belfast.

He was charged with directing a terrorist organisation and membership of a proscribed organisation.

(IT/CD)

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