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21/07/2011
Co Antrim Search Follow Met Cop Shooting
The North's police have arrested two men following the shooting of a police officer in south Croydon earlier this month.
On Wednesday evening the men, aged 20 and 26, were arrested at a house in south Belfast and a number of items were removed from the Lisburn Road premises for examination.
Both men are being questioned about the attempted murder with the 26-year-old suspect being flown to London later for questioning, while the 20-year-old is still being held in Northern Ireland.
Last Friday the unarmed policeman was shot on Kingsdown Avenue while chasing three men.
The male PC is believed to have been chasing the men at around 10pm on July 15 when one of them opened fire and shot him in the arm.
Met Police officers then travelled to Northern Ireland this week to take custody of the 26-year-old man, who is now on route to London for questioning about the attempted murder.
Two other men have already been charged in connection with the shooting.
Adewale Ogunsanya, aged 22, of Leigham Court Road, Streatham, south London, and Demar Provan, aged 21, of no fixed address, appeared at Croydon Magistrates' Court on July 18 charged with possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and possessing ammunition.
They are due at Croydon Crown Court on September 23.
Crime Alert
Meanwhile a senior PSNI officer has warned of disruption a few miles beyond the south Belfast thoroughfare where the arrest took place.
Supt Philip Knox said that, "an ongoing policing operation necessitating closure of part of Knockmore Road, Lisburn, and said this means drivers should "best avoid the area if possible".
It is not known if the incident is in anyway connected to the arrest of the London shooting suspects, along the Lisburn Road yesterday, but the PSNI have issued a formal statement to say that the ongoing search is in relation to organised crime - and is not terrorist related - and that it has caused road closures in the Causeway End Road of Lisburn, near Knockmore.
(BMcC/GK)
On Wednesday evening the men, aged 20 and 26, were arrested at a house in south Belfast and a number of items were removed from the Lisburn Road premises for examination.
Both men are being questioned about the attempted murder with the 26-year-old suspect being flown to London later for questioning, while the 20-year-old is still being held in Northern Ireland.
Last Friday the unarmed policeman was shot on Kingsdown Avenue while chasing three men.
The male PC is believed to have been chasing the men at around 10pm on July 15 when one of them opened fire and shot him in the arm.
Met Police officers then travelled to Northern Ireland this week to take custody of the 26-year-old man, who is now on route to London for questioning about the attempted murder.
Two other men have already been charged in connection with the shooting.
Adewale Ogunsanya, aged 22, of Leigham Court Road, Streatham, south London, and Demar Provan, aged 21, of no fixed address, appeared at Croydon Magistrates' Court on July 18 charged with possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life and possessing ammunition.
They are due at Croydon Crown Court on September 23.
Crime Alert
Meanwhile a senior PSNI officer has warned of disruption a few miles beyond the south Belfast thoroughfare where the arrest took place.
Supt Philip Knox said that, "an ongoing policing operation necessitating closure of part of Knockmore Road, Lisburn, and said this means drivers should "best avoid the area if possible".
It is not known if the incident is in anyway connected to the arrest of the London shooting suspects, along the Lisburn Road yesterday, but the PSNI have issued a formal statement to say that the ongoing search is in relation to organised crime - and is not terrorist related - and that it has caused road closures in the Causeway End Road of Lisburn, near Knockmore.
(BMcC/GK)
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