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16/08/2005
Minister hits out at ‘callous and cold blooded’ murder
NIO Minister Jeff Rooker has condemned the shooting dead of a man in south Belfast on Monday as “callous and cold blooded”.
Michael Green, 42, from Ballysillan in north Belfast, was shot several times as he got off his motorbike outside his place of work in the Sandy Row area of the city at around 8am.
The emergency services arrived within minutes but he died at the scene.
Mr Rooker said: “This horrific murder brings nothing but pain and grief to yet another family. There is no place for gangsterism in the loyalist community or anywhere else and only the rule of law can bring stability to communities that have already suffered so much.”
Sandy Row was closed from Hope Street to the junction of the Donegall Road as police and forensic scientists investigated the scene of the shooting. It has since been reopened.
A car found in Roden Street, which was also cordoned off by police, is currently being examined by forensic experts.
(MB/SP)
Michael Green, 42, from Ballysillan in north Belfast, was shot several times as he got off his motorbike outside his place of work in the Sandy Row area of the city at around 8am.
The emergency services arrived within minutes but he died at the scene.
Mr Rooker said: “This horrific murder brings nothing but pain and grief to yet another family. There is no place for gangsterism in the loyalist community or anywhere else and only the rule of law can bring stability to communities that have already suffered so much.”
Sandy Row was closed from Hope Street to the junction of the Donegall Road as police and forensic scientists investigated the scene of the shooting. It has since been reopened.
A car found in Roden Street, which was also cordoned off by police, is currently being examined by forensic experts.
(MB/SP)
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