The British government could face fresh unrest in the North's jails if attacks on prison officers' homes continue, it was claimed yesterday.
The Prison Officers' Association said its members had just about had enough of being continually caught in the middle of disputes between paramilitary groups and the government.
Overnight two more prison officers, one retired, were targeted in their homes. In one attack, a shot was fired into the living-room of a house in Bangor, Co Down. The former officer, his wife and two teenage sons were asleep upstairs and escaped injury.
In Newtownabbey, Co Antrim, another prison officer's car was damaged when it was petrol- bombed outside his house shortly before midnight.
They were the latest in a series of attacks which prison officers blame on loyalist paramilitaries and which are linked to ongoing disputes in the high security Maghaberry prison in Co Antrim. - (PA)
