Man and teen held in PSNI shooting probe

A 37-YEAR-OLD man and a 17-year-old youth were in PSNI custody last night being questioned in relation to the killing of 48-year-old Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, who was shot dead on Saturday night in Craigavon, County Armagh.

The attack was claimed yesterday by the Continuity IRA, a dissident republican group and came just two days after a rival terrorist faction, the Real IRA, killed two British soldiers in Antrim.

The youth was arrested during police searches of Craigavon’s Ardowen housing estate at 3.30pm yesterday, the older suspect an hour-and-a-half later in the adjacent Drumbeg area. At the scene of the young man’s arrest his mother stated he was being “unfairly” targeted by police and was not “politically involved”. The young man’s Citroen Saxo car was also removed for forensic tests.