Searches in NI over 2005 murder of boy

Detectives hunting the killers of Belfast schoolboy Thomas Devlin carried out new searches in a loyalist housing estate today…

Detectives hunting the killers of Belfast schoolboy Thomas Devlin carried out new searches in a loyalist housing estate today.

Officers returned to Mount Vernon, where much of their inquiry has centred since the 15-year-old Catholic was stabbed to death in August 2005. They searched a property in the Ross House complex.

During an earlier search at Ross House police brought in a sniffer dog after the discovery of a knife nearby. The weapon has since undergone forensic tests.

Despite making 12 arrests so far, police have yet to charge anyone with Thomas's murder.

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The boy was attacked on the Somerton Road, close to his north Belfast home, as he returned from a garage and was stabbed up to five times in the back.