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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)
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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