{"id":324741,"date":"2025-12-19T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324741\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:08:08","slug":"damian-duffy-and-shea-reynolds-jailed-over-terrorism-offences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/324741\/","title":{"rendered":"Damian Duffy and Shea Reynolds jailed over terrorism offences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking after the sentencing, Det Supt Moutray, from the PSNI&#8217;s Terrorism Investigation Unit, said Duffy and Reynolds were observed as part of a surveillance operation on suspected members and associates of the New IRA,  placing a wildlife camera in the Annaghone Road area on 4 September, 2016. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said they returned a few days later to remove the camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Chillingly, they then deployed this camera at the driveway of the home address of a retired police officer on 14 September,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Police removed the camera from the former officer&#8217;s home to examine it and then replaced it with a dummy camera.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Duffy and Reynolds returned to the address several days later in an attempt to recover their camera, unaware it had been replaced. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Examination of the camera showed images attributed to both defendants, as well as a forensic link to Reynolds.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said Duffy has previous terrorist-related convictions from 1993, when he was convicted of the false imprisonment and assault of an off-duty UDR soldier, as well as attempting to elicit information useful to terrorists from the injured party. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This activity was conducted on behalf of the IRA,&#8221; he said.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking after the sentencing, Det Supt Moutray, from the PSNI&#8217;s Terrorism Investigation Unit, said Duffy and Reynolds were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-324741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}