Bombing accused freed on bail

A woman arrested in Corn wall last week and flown back to Northern Ireland to face terrorist charges was freed on bail yesterday…

A woman arrested in Corn wall last week and flown back to Northern Ireland to face terrorist charges was freed on bail yesterday.

Ms Rain Landry (24), formerly from the Brownstown estate in Portadown, is accused of causing an explosion and petrol-bombing a Catholic-owned butcher's shop in the town in September 1998.

Ms Landry and her mother, Ms Muriel Gibson (52), who had been living in Cornwall, were remanded in custody at a special sitting of Craigavon Magistrates' Court last Saturday.

Ms Gibson was charged with murdering a Catholic council worker, Mr Adrian Lamph (29), in April 1998. At the High Court in Belfast yesterday a prosecution lawyer alleged that when Ms Landry was living in Portadown she was a close associate of leading members of the LVF.

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He said the petrol and blast bombs used in the attack on the butcher's shop were of a type commonly used by loyalists in connection with the trouble surrounding Drumcree.

A lawyer for Ms Landry said she was denying the charges.