Cemetery shooting victim abducted

A MAN critically injured in a graveyard shooting in the North was abducted, police said yesterday.

Cemetery shooting victim abducted

The 26-year-old was found by officers in the cemetery in Holywood, Co Down, with a gunshot wound to the chest at 2.30am after a single shot and the victim’s yells for help were heard by a nearby resident.

Detective Superintendent Graham Shield, the man leading the investigation, said paramilitary involvement was one of the possibilities being investigated.

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