‘Investigative failures’ found around Northern Ireland mortar bomb attack which killed officer

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Police made “investigative failures” in a probe into a 1992 mortar bomb attack which claimed the life of a young female officer.

Constable Colleen McMurray, 34, was in a police car which was hit by an IRA mortar bomb as it travelled along Merchants Quay beside the canal in Newry, Co Down on March 27, 1992.