Bomb planted on doorstep

Loyalist paramilitaries planted a bomb at the home of an east Belfast man they mistakenly believed was a prison officer, it was claimed today.

Loyalist paramilitaries planted a bomb at the home of an east Belfast man they mistakenly believed was a prison officer, it was claimed today.

Army explosives experts defused the device found on a doorstep in the Shaw Street area of the city.

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