Dunmurry car bomb is ‘fruitless and desperate act by desperate no-hopers’

Liam Kelly, Chair Police Federation for Northern Ireland, says the car bomb attack on Dunmurry police station was a fruitless and reckless act by desperate no-hopers.

Mr Kelly said: “This was callous and massively irresponsible. It has caused great upset and generated widespread and justifiable revulsion.

“If you want the definition of madness, then this is no finer example of that. This doesn’t move the needle towards any particular goal. All it does is show that there are still people who want to murder my colleagues and deliver pain and suffering in our communities.

“These faceless cowards are a throwback to the dark ages of the ‘Troubles’. They have no place in the society we are all striving to build – a society free from thuggery and terrorism.

“As a comprehensive police investigation continues, I say to the cowards who hijacked this vehicle and detonated it in a residential area outside a police station to leave the stage. This attack was a fruitless and reckless act by desperate no-hopers. They are morally bankrupt and should be consigned to history.

“I would directly appeal to the public to assist the PSNI in identifying the offenders so they can quickly and rightly be placed before the courts.”