10/11/2008
School Watch For St Colm's Bomb Hoaxers
A community-led effort has been undertaken to defeat bomb hoaxers who have been plaguing a west Belfast school for weeks.
The neighbourhood groups have begun watching the school overnight to deter the people behind a series of hoax bomb alerts.
Eight hoaxes in recent weeks have caused serious disruption at St Colm's High School in Twinbrook, on the outskirts of west Belfast.
Army bomb experts (pictured) have dealt with a number of suspicious objects.
According to BBC NI, a spokesman, Stephen Magennis, of the Colin Safer Neighbourhood Project, said: "We are hoping we can catch them red-handed."
"We will provide whatever we get to the PSNI to resolve this issue once and for all," he said.
"We want to get convictions - we want these people arrested, charged and put away for what they are doing.
"It's interfering with people's lives, and they need to be held accountable."
Last week, Sinn Féin MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann said the local community has "lost patience over the bomb hoaxes", noting this was the eighth bomb scare inside three weeks.
"Those responsible are causing a great deal of disruption to the local community and to the school and its pupils," she said, noting that this week sees 4th year St Colm's students sitting their first GCSE modules and that "any further disruption cannot be allowed to occur".
See: St Colm's Device Declared Further Hoax
(BMcC)
The neighbourhood groups have begun watching the school overnight to deter the people behind a series of hoax bomb alerts.
Eight hoaxes in recent weeks have caused serious disruption at St Colm's High School in Twinbrook, on the outskirts of west Belfast.
Army bomb experts (pictured) have dealt with a number of suspicious objects.
According to BBC NI, a spokesman, Stephen Magennis, of the Colin Safer Neighbourhood Project, said: "We are hoping we can catch them red-handed."
"We will provide whatever we get to the PSNI to resolve this issue once and for all," he said.
"We want to get convictions - we want these people arrested, charged and put away for what they are doing.
"It's interfering with people's lives, and they need to be held accountable."
Last week, Sinn Féin MLA for West Belfast Jennifer McCann said the local community has "lost patience over the bomb hoaxes", noting this was the eighth bomb scare inside three weeks.
"Those responsible are causing a great deal of disruption to the local community and to the school and its pupils," she said, noting that this week sees 4th year St Colm's students sitting their first GCSE modules and that "any further disruption cannot be allowed to occur".
See: St Colm's Device Declared Further Hoax
(BMcC)
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