Hope that forensic advances may aid probe into 1982 IRA bomb attack

Jon Boutcher has appealed for information and witnesses over an IRA bomb attack which killed three police officers at Kinnego Embankment in Craigavon, Co Armagh, on October 27 1982 (Liam McBurney/PA)

Hope has been expressed that advances in forensic science may help the investigation into the killing of three police officers in a 1982 IRA bomb attack.

Sergeant Sean Quinn, 37, and Constables Paul Hamilton, 26, and Allan McCloy, 34, died in the blast at Kinnego Embankment in Craigavon, close to Co Armagh beauty spot Oxford Island, on October 27.