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04/06/2019
Renewed Appeal As Bomb Planted Under Car
The PSNI's Terrorism Investigation unit has issued a renewed appeal for information after the attempted murder of an officer with a car bomb on Saturday 01 June.
A serving officer detected the device under his vehicle when parked at Shandon Park Golf Club in east Belfast. It was later declared to be a viable explosive, planted in a clear attempt to murder the officer.
Detective Superintendent Sean Wright said: "This was an appalling, cowardly attack on not just a police officer but on the local community and Northern Ireland as a whole."
Police are seeking anyone who was in the areas of Green Road, Knockhill Park, Upper Newtownards Road, Shandon Park and Shandon Park Golf Club anytime between 10pm on Friday 31 May and 7.30am on Saturday 01 June to come forward. Anyone who lives in those areas and has CCTV is urged to speak to police.
Detectives are interested in two vehicles, both of which were found burnt out in Etna Drive in the early hours of Saturday morning – a green coloured Skoda Octavia, VRM 01D78089 and silver coloured SAAB 95, VRM NFZ 3216.
Detective Superintendent Wright added: "I want to speak to anyone who saw them in the Ballyhackamore or Upper Newtownards Road area between midnight and 2am on Saturday 1 June. This was the early hours of Saturday morning when people will have been out socialising. The area will have been busy and I'd appeal to taxi drivers to consider if they have any dash-cam footage, to contact Terrorism Investigation Unit detectives on 101."
(JG/CM)
A serving officer detected the device under his vehicle when parked at Shandon Park Golf Club in east Belfast. It was later declared to be a viable explosive, planted in a clear attempt to murder the officer.
Detective Superintendent Sean Wright said: "This was an appalling, cowardly attack on not just a police officer but on the local community and Northern Ireland as a whole."
Police are seeking anyone who was in the areas of Green Road, Knockhill Park, Upper Newtownards Road, Shandon Park and Shandon Park Golf Club anytime between 10pm on Friday 31 May and 7.30am on Saturday 01 June to come forward. Anyone who lives in those areas and has CCTV is urged to speak to police.
Detectives are interested in two vehicles, both of which were found burnt out in Etna Drive in the early hours of Saturday morning – a green coloured Skoda Octavia, VRM 01D78089 and silver coloured SAAB 95, VRM NFZ 3216.
Detective Superintendent Wright added: "I want to speak to anyone who saw them in the Ballyhackamore or Upper Newtownards Road area between midnight and 2am on Saturday 1 June. This was the early hours of Saturday morning when people will have been out socialising. The area will have been busy and I'd appeal to taxi drivers to consider if they have any dash-cam footage, to contact Terrorism Investigation Unit detectives on 101."
(JG/CM)
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