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13/01/2012
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Crossbow Fired At Belfast Nightclub Staff
Police are treating a crossbow attack on door staff at a Belfast nightclub as attempted murder. It is understood that a car pulled up outside Rain nightclub in the Tomb Street area of the city shortly after 23.00 on Wednesday evening. The Crossbow was fired and a window was damaged but no one was injured in the attack.
Man Denies Portstewart Murder
A man accused of murdering a woman at a launderette in Portstewart last year has pleaded not guilty. Forty-nine-year-old Fred McClenaghan from Magherafelt is accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend, Marion Millican, while she was in her place of work back in March 2011. Mr. McClenaghan has also denied having a firearm with the intention of endangering a life.
No Evidence Of Derry Explosion
Police have said they have found no evidence that an explosion occurred in Londonderry on Tuesday evening. The PSNI logged a multitude of calls from people on both side of the River Foyle and from as far away as Eglinton and Drumahoe, on the suburbs of the city, about an explosion, but no obvious source has been found. Theories and rumours flew around the city with reports of exploding tyres, masked men and a possible attack on police.
(LB)
Police are treating a crossbow attack on door staff at a Belfast nightclub as attempted murder. It is understood that a car pulled up outside Rain nightclub in the Tomb Street area of the city shortly after 23.00 on Wednesday evening. The Crossbow was fired and a window was damaged but no one was injured in the attack.
Man Denies Portstewart Murder
A man accused of murdering a woman at a launderette in Portstewart last year has pleaded not guilty. Forty-nine-year-old Fred McClenaghan from Magherafelt is accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend, Marion Millican, while she was in her place of work back in March 2011. Mr. McClenaghan has also denied having a firearm with the intention of endangering a life.
No Evidence Of Derry Explosion
Police have said they have found no evidence that an explosion occurred in Londonderry on Tuesday evening. The PSNI logged a multitude of calls from people on both side of the River Foyle and from as far away as Eglinton and Drumahoe, on the suburbs of the city, about an explosion, but no obvious source has been found. Theories and rumours flew around the city with reports of exploding tyres, masked men and a possible attack on police.
(LB)
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