PSNI officer fights for life after car bomb

THE captain of the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s Gaelic football team was fighting for his life last night after he was critically injured by a booby trap bomb.

PSNI officer fights for life after car bomb
Sat, 09 Jan, 2010 - 00:00
Deric Henderson

Peadar Heffron, 33, had just left his home outside Randalstown, Co Antrim, to start duty in west Belfast when the device exploded under his blue Alfa Romeo car. Dissident republicans were blamed.

Constable Heffron, a Catholic who spoke Irish, was married last year.

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