13/05/2002

Police arrest man in connection with Dromore death

A man has been arrested in connection with the suspicious death in March of a teenager in Dromore, Country Tyrone.

The body of the fifteen-year-old boy was found on the evening of 2 March in a house in Fairview Gardens in the town, and the boy was later identified as Niall Breen. A port-mortem examination was carried out the following day, and further forensic tests have led to County Tyrone police treating the death as suspicious.

Police are also investigating the circumstances surrounding a man’s death in Dundonald on the outskirts of east Belfast on 10 May 2002.

His body was discovered in a field adjacent to the Gransha Road in Dundonald at 9am. A legally held firearm was found nearby.

Police are appealing to anyone who was in the area of Gransha Road between 6pm on Thursday 9 May and 9am on Friday 10 May to contact them if they witnessed anything suspicious or unusual in the area.

(CL)


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