Police were told of migrant addresses 'hit list' before Belfast riots

See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy KRISTINA WEMYSS, GENERAL NEWS REPORTER Published: 11:23 BST, 12 June 2026 | Updated: 11:58 BST, 12 June 2026

Police were repeatedly warned that a 'hit list' of migrant addresses was being circulated ahead of the riots in Belfast this week.The details are understood to have been shared within far-Right circles since August 2025, and were first reported to police in January this year.The addresses were among those targeted during this week’s anti-immigration riots, which broke out after the stabbing of Stephen Ogilvie, 44.Sudanese refugee Hadi Alodid, 30, appeared in court over the attack on Wednesday and has been charged with attempted murder.Protests over the stabbing have caused chaos in Belfast, with houses and cars burned night after night.It came after a volunteer group that monitors anti-immigration activity online sent dozens of reports to the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) over the past eight months.A PSNI inspector was emailed a screenshot of a hitlist in January, according to The Guardian.Campaigners say a similar list has been circulated on social media and messaging apps in recent days. And the PSNI warned earlier this week against the sharing of home addresses, adding that doing so had left families and residents ‘extremely distressed’.