Police intercept fifth suspect parcel in Celtic probe

POLICE investigating parcel bombs sent to Celtic manager Neil Lennon and two high-profile supporters of the club said yesterday that another suspect package had been intercepted in Northern Ireland.

The latest package — believed to be a parcel bomb — was found at the National Return Letter Centre in Belfast, where mail which has not been delivered and has no return-to-sender address is retained by Royal Mail.

It is the fifth package to be intercepted.

Strathclyde Police believe the package originally entered the postal system at around the same time as the devices that are already under investigation.

Officers from the PSNI recovered the package and alerted the Scotland force.

A spokeswoman for Strathclyde Police said the latest find would be made safe and handed over to officers in Scotland for further investigation.

It is understood the latest package was not addressed to a particular individual.

Last week Strathclyde Police said the two packages sent to Lennon, and others to lawyer Paul McBride QC and former MSP Trish Godman, were “designed to cause real harm to the person who opened them”.

Two of the four parcels were intercepted at Royal Mail sorting offices in the west of Scotland last month, both addressed to the Celtic manager.

Lennon, 39, has endured threats and abuse throughout his career and was forced to retire from representing Northern Ireland in international football after receiving death threats.