A man has been found guilty of attempting to murder police officers in a 2022 bomb attack later claimed by the New IRA.
As he convicted Charlie Love (31) on all four charges he faced at Belfast Crown Court, Judge Fowler said he was satisfied Love was “intimately connected with the planning and execution of what was a dissident terrorist bomb attack on a police car with two officers on board”.
“I am satisfied that it was the defendant’s intention that police officers would be killed,” he said.
The judge rejected suggestions the bomb attack in Strabane, Co Tyrone, was an “elaborate incident to scare or terrorise the police” and instead said it fell within a “violent dissident terrorism agenda”.
The four charges Love was convicted of arose from an attack on a police vehicle in the Mount Carmel Heights area on the evening of November 17th, 2022.
