Attempt to murder family
The attack on the home of Moyle Sinn Fein Councillor James McCarry on
Monday night, 29 March, was the 90th individual attack on nationalist
homes and businesses since March 1998. This figure excludes the
killings of the Quinn children, Rosemary Nelson, RUC man Frankie
O'Reilly and the hundreds of nightly attacks on Catholic homes in the
Portadown area as a result of the activities of the Orange Order
relating to the Drumcree siege.
Sinn Féin's Mitchel McLaughlin said that the attack ``was deliberately
aimed at James McCarry's family.
``He was not at home at the time and those who attacked the house
would have known this as his car was not in its usual place.''
The attackers smashed in the living room window with a brick then
hurled their bomb into a room normally used by Councillor McCarry's
young children. The shrapnel from the explosion, which was sprayed
across the room, would have seriously injured or possibly killed the
youngsters had they been there.
This is not the first time that the McCarry home has been targeted.
McLaughlin explained that ``just over a year ago an under-car booby
trap device was placed under the family car. Only James McCarry's
vigilance averted disaster''. McCarry himself believes that the
earlier attack was carried out by the UVF and this present attack was
carried out by the same organisation.
Concluding, McLaughlin urged people to remain vigilant, saying:
``These murder attempts on the McCarry family were intended to cause
injury or death to anyone in the house, including James McCarry's
wife and children.''
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