A 41-year-old woman was charged last night in connection with this week's failed mortarbomb attack on an RUC station in Newry, Co Down. She will appear at Newry and Mourne Magistrates' Court this morning on a charge of conspiring to cause an explosion.
The woman was detained after a mortar-bomb was discovered near the Corry Square RUC station in the centre of the town on Tuesday. A youth arrested at the same time has been released without charge.
The incident was the fifth attempted mortar attack on the security forces since last March. The mortars have all misfired and there have been no casualties.
Two sentenced for plant robbery The theft of £16,000 worth of computer equipment led to two people receiving suspended prison sentences at Letterkenny District Court yesterday.
Petra McCullagh (21), Mill brook Terrace, Malin, and Gary Brown (28), Rockmills, Strand Road, Derry, pleaded guilty to the robbery at Carrigans meat factory, Co Donegal, on March 8th last.
Judge John O'Donnell described the robbery as an elaborate hoax designed to defraud and carried out with the utmost efficiency.
The judge sentenced the defendants to three months' imprisonment each, suspended for three years, on each entering into a bond to keep the peace.