Police officer killed in Omagh bomb

SJAG

Highfield Area, Gortin Road.

Sad news, RIP officer and thoughts with their family.

sanbrafyffe

if this is true they are the scum of the earth is the rira,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,its time for the people of ireland to take these bastaxxs out,,,,,,,,

catweasel10

Terrible news. RIP.

tfitzgerald

I was very sad to hear this , it's not good news for anyone. My sympathies are with the officers family

Gee-22

Under car device kills new recruit.

Ba***rds.

sanbrafyffe

i am absolutely sick,,,you would not believe it

1967J

Sorry to hear this RIP

sydnor

An attack carried out by scum.

A life lost and lives ruined for no good reason

dixie33

Was the recruit killed ? :eek:
i only heard that they were seriously injured.

Thoughts are with the family
R.I.P

Hope this murder doesn't mark the start of a wave of attacks or a new tactic to scare RCs out of the PSNI

sydnor

dixie33 wrote: »

Was the recruit killed ? :eek:
i only heard that they were seriously injured.

Thoughts are with the family
R.I.P

Reports are somewhat confusing. Being reported that he is critically injured at the moment. Hope the recruit can pull through.

flyingsnail

From BBC website "2 April 2011 Last updated at 16:41"

A police officer is in a critical condition after a bomb exploded under his car in Omagh, County Tyrone.

The device exploded under the vehicle outside his home in Highfield Close, off the Gortin Road, just before 1600 BST on Saturday.

It is not clear if there have been any other casualties.

Since 2007, dissidents republican have planted dozens of booby-trap bombs under the private cars of police officers.

The bombs usually fail to detonate and have killed nobody.

But two policemen have lost their legs in attacks in May 2008 and January 2010.

Gee-22

The news report said house were shaken by the explosion. So it sounds like a large device.

Looks like the dissidents have struck again.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Northern-Ireland-Police-Say-They-Are-Responding-To-Reports-Of-A-Car-Bomb/Article/201104115964819?lpos=UK_News_Carousel_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15964819_Northern_Ireland_Police_Say_They_Are_Responding_To_Reports_Of_A_Car_Bomb

RIP to the officer.

IngazZagni

Do we have any confirmation that he was killed? If not the thread title should be edited until we get more updates.

Very sad to hear this.

Gee-22

IngazZagni wrote: »

Do we have any confirmation that he was killed? If not the thread title should be edited until we get more updates.

Very sad to hear this.

Unofficial reports say he was killed.

Just awaiting official conformation.

Gee-22

Just been confirmed by PSNI.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-12947225

sharan

jesus here we go again

flyingsnail

already a thread running on this here.

Gee-22

He had only passed out 3 weeks ago.

Just goes to show how important it is for all PSNI officers to check their vehicles and look after their security. Please let it be a warning to everyone.

Goonerdee

Murdering scum, I want to smash my fist through my laptop.

1986j

Thoughts and prayers are with his friends and family.

Basically I after genuine and serious consultation with G'Ville staff and various other sevring policemen I had questions I could not answer re serious security concerns. Worst and toughest decision I made was rejecting offer. I did it formally and returned all info I received etc

I just had a terrible feeling this would have happened as around the announcement of the last 2 recruitemnet campaigns, The devolution of Policing and Justice to NI, and now end of 50:50 something bad has happened.

The hateful scumbags are picking significant dates. i cant express my sadness at this story.

Genuine condolences to all friends and family of this young man!

Gee-22

Gee-22 wrote: »

He had only passed out 3 weeks ago.

Just goes to show how important it is for all PSNI officers to check their vehicles and look after their security. Please let it be a warning to everyone.

For all we know he could've been a boardsie...sickening thought

RIP and my heart goes out to his friends and family.

It truly sickens and saddens me that there are people out there willing to kill someone just because of their occupation, just for doing what they love and what they have probably dreamt about doing for a long time, in such a cowardly way too. The poor guy only got to live the dream for 3 weeks too.

Apologies for the colourfull language...but these people are pure and utter cowardly, hateful, backward, b**tard c**nts who have no place whatsoever in our society.

shakin

Sickening to hear what the sick f*ckers have done.....RIP

Goonerdee

Gee-22 wrote: »

He had only passed out 3 weeks ago.

Just goes to show how important it is for all PSNI officers to check their vehicles and look after their security. Please let it be a warning to everyone.

Sky News reporting that he was killed as he walked towards the car, he never got a chance to look under it.

Delancey

Unfortunately these terrorists need to ' get lucky ' just once ( as we are always being reminded ).
As per Sky News the dead officer was an RC - proof of an effort to dissuade RC's from joining .

R.I.P. and condolences to all effected.

msg11

RIP.

Poor lad only out of training, pure scum murdering bunch of has beens

TangoVictor

Disgracefull.

-tv

minerdees

Just to clear something up. He passed out in 2010. Was in the same course as my bro in law. Had recently finished his tutorship. Can't believe this has happened again. RIP

PapaYankeeGirl

minerdees wrote: »

Just to clear something up. He passed out in 2010. Was in the same course as my bro in law. Had recently finished his tutorship. Can't believe this has happened again. RIP

Yeah he was 10 weeks behind me.

RIP

Goonerdee

I'm sitting here crying, through sadness and through anger. My family don't understand why I have taken it bad, I don't know why I have either. It must be since I started trying to join the PSNI I have come to regard all officers to be a bit like friends to me, I suppose it is because the PSNI is one big family and I want to be part of that family. It's hard to explain.

FGR

Rest in peace, Officer.

I hope to God they'll track down who did this.

Gee-22

1986j wrote: »

Thoughts and prayers are with his friends and family.

Basically I after genuine and serious consultation with G'Ville staff and various other sevring policemen I had questions I could not answer re serious security concerns. Worst and toughest decision I made was rejecting offer. I did it formally and returned all info I received etc

I just had a terrible feeling this would have happened as around the announcement of the last 2 recruitemnet campaigns, The devolution of Policing and Justice to NI, and now end of 50:50 something bad has happened.

The hateful scumbags are picking significant dates. i cant express my sadness at this story.

Genuine condolences to all friends and family of this young man!

Were you in the March intake? Did you leave this week?

amacachi

Delancey wrote: »

Unfortunately these terrorists need to ' get lucky ' just once ( as we are always being reminded ).
As per Sky News the dead officer was an RC - proof of an effort to dissuade RC's from joining .

R.I.P. and condolences to all effected.

It's happened more than once, coupla of lads have lost their legs in similar attacks over the last few years and God only knows how many devices have actually been planted.

Goonerdee

Goonerdee wrote: »

I'm sitting here crying, through sadness and through anger. My family don't understand why I have taken it bad, I don't know why I have either. It must be since I started trying to join the PSNI I have come to regard all officers to be a bit like friends to me, I suppose it is because the PSNI is one big family and I want to be part of that family. It's hard to explain.

Nothing to be ashamed of Goonerdee, this news has struck a chord with me too. As terrible and as sad that all attacks in recent years have been, including the death PC Carroll in 2009 (RIP), this one has definately hit me a bit more. For me the fact that he was so young and had only so recently passed out of training makes it a bit more personal to me. More than likely he was from this campaign or the previous one, either way I was also fighting for his job. That poor guy could have been any one of us. It is incredibly sad. Having said that, it will never ever deter me.

Thanks to the thread in AH I accidently wondered on to another message board...I have never felt so angry and sick to my stomach reading some of the comments and reactions there to this. There are some truly vile people out there :mad:

M2010

Jesus another young Catholic life taken by scumbags who seem to think they have the right to chose that someone should die solely because of their religion and for having the balls to sign up and do the job that so many are too scared to do because of cowardly attackers such as these!

As a RC desperate for recruitment to open up again, this news has terribly shaken me. But I simply refuse to let scum like this deter myself, and any other RC that wants to stand up to these people and show them that we simply will not do a job because dissidents say that we are not allowed to! Who the f*ck made them God?! B*stards! (sorry about the language).

R.I.P. Officer

Maybe the mods might merge the two threads and put them where the most people will see them?

thebakerboy

Sickened by this news also filled with sadness at the thought of these animals trying to drag our country backwards, because of their own selfish thoughts and plans. So much effort to get the "dream" only to have it taken away in a total act of madness!

I/we can only hope that this murder will have the reverse effect on our country and unite people against this scum that threatens our future and that of our families.

My heart goes out to the officer's family and friends, you are all in my thoughts.

RIP

eroo

RIP to the Officer, and my thoughts go out to his family and colleagues.

The vermin who carried out this attack are not Irishmen, nor men at all. Vermin.

Zambia

RIP Constable

alentejo

Truly dreadful. its MURDER. RIP to this young man

RevBlueJeans

This is awful, I remember the the Omagh bombing in the 90's and it was very depressing. How can we influence these guys to stop?

kleefarr

M2010 wrote: »

Jesus another young Catholic life taken by scumbags who seem to think they have the right to chose that someone should die solely because of their religion and for having the balls to sign up and do the job that so many are too scared to do because of cowardly attackers such as these!

As a RC desperate for recruitment to open up again, this news has terribly shaken me. But I simply refuse to let scum like this deter myself, and any other RC that wants to stand up to these people and show them that we simply will not do a job because dissidents say that we are not allowed to! Who the f*ck made them God?! B*stards! (sorry about the language).

R.I.P. Officer

Agreed, what a needless waste of life, but I fail to see what religion has to do with it. Catholic or otherwise.

Delancey

kleefarr wrote: »

Agreed, what a needless waste of life, but I fail to see what religion has to do with it. Catholic or otherwise.

The terrorists are specifically targetting Catholic officers to try and discourage other catholics from joining the PSNI.

Zambia

Delancey wrote: »

The terrorists are specifically targetting Catholic officers to try and discourage other catholics from joining the PSNI.

The higher they build those barriers the taller we become.

Mr Simpson

Scum, can they not just leave the past where it belongs.
RIP Ronan

Donatello

RevBlueJeans wrote: »

This is awful, I remember the the Omagh bombing in the 90's and it was very depressing. How can we influence these guys to stop?

You can't. They hate. That's it. I'll bet the police do know who did it. I bet they have a fair idea who they are. They just can't pin it on them.

charlemont

My sympathies go out to that young mans family. Its a disgraceful act.

This Guy

So Sad, RIP to the family......

Contra Proferentem

Condelences to this young officer's family and to his colleagues. As someone close to republican politics, I believe that violence is not the way forward. Those responsible must be brought to justice, and those who are clearly harbouring or supporting them must be prosecuted.

The more attacks they carry out, the more brazen they become. Whether it's attacks on the state or harassment of people who oppose them in the community.

sdanseo

RIP to the officer killed.

Hill St Blue

RIP young man.