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23/04/2007
Thieves set up 'hoax bombs' to rob homes
Residents in east Belfast are angry after a hoax bomb was set up by thieves to burgle a row of houses.
Eight homes on the Cumberland Road in Dundonald were evacuated for several hours yesterday morning after the suspect stolen car was abandoned in the street.
A warning had been given that a 500lb car bomb had been left. The caller said he was from the Continuity IRA, however, no code word was given.
When the alert was declared to be bogus by army bomb disposal experts, families were allowed to return to their homes – to find they had been ransacked and robbed.
It is thought the houses were entered between midnight and 1:00am on Sunday and jewellery, keys and other goods were stolen.
Local police Chief Inspector Stephen Adley said the whole thing had been well planned.
He said: “This was clearly pre-planned and we are led to believe – though our investigations are at an early stage – they knew where they were targeting, they knew the residents who were living in those properties and they also knew the backs of those properties were exposed to open land.
“In all probability, they knew where the police would put the security cordons.”
(JM/KMcA)
Eight homes on the Cumberland Road in Dundonald were evacuated for several hours yesterday morning after the suspect stolen car was abandoned in the street.
A warning had been given that a 500lb car bomb had been left. The caller said he was from the Continuity IRA, however, no code word was given.
When the alert was declared to be bogus by army bomb disposal experts, families were allowed to return to their homes – to find they had been ransacked and robbed.
It is thought the houses were entered between midnight and 1:00am on Sunday and jewellery, keys and other goods were stolen.
Local police Chief Inspector Stephen Adley said the whole thing had been well planned.
He said: “This was clearly pre-planned and we are led to believe – though our investigations are at an early stage – they knew where they were targeting, they knew the residents who were living in those properties and they also knew the backs of those properties were exposed to open land.
“In all probability, they knew where the police would put the security cordons.”
(JM/KMcA)
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