Woman held over murder of constable

Detectives were last night questioning a 36-year-old woman at Antrim PSNI station about last month’s dissident republican murder…

Detectives were last night questioning a 36-year-old woman at Antrim PSNI station about last month’s dissident republican murder of Constable Ronan Kerr in Omagh, Co Tyrone.

Police searched the house of the woman, who was arrested yesterday in Pomeroy, Co Tyrone.

Constable Kerr died on April 2nd in a car bombing that was claimed by a new dissident grouping.

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