04/10/2007

Girl Re-Arrested Over Grocer Murder

Police have re-arrested a teenager in connection with the murder of grocer Harry Holland.

The 15-year-old female had been remanded in custody charged with affray and assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

A police spokesperson has confirmed that the girl has been taken for questioning to the PSNI serious crime suite in Antrim from the Lakewood Centre in Bangor where she was currently being held.

Mr Holland, 65, was stabbed in the head with a screwdriver near his home in Norfolk Drive, west Belfast last month, trying to prevent his delivery van from being stolen last Tuesday night.

(LC/SP)

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