Police still hunting for knife used in Tempo murder
Chris Donegan • Published 3 Sep 2010 09:00
Police investigating the murder of 34-year-old Ciaran Woods in Tempo in July have still to find the knife used in the fatal stabbing.
The Senior Investigating Officer in charge of the case, Detective Chief Inspector Ricky Harkness, admitted: “Despite intensive searches of the area, we have not been able to locate the murder weapon, which could be somewhere on a stretch of road between the murder scene at Edenmore and beyond the village of Tempo.”
Mr. Woods was stabbed to death during a disturbance at a house at Edenmore Crescent in Tempo in the early hours of Tuesday, July 20. Kathleen McQuaid, a 37-year-old mother of two, was wounded during the incident.
Detective Chief Inspector Harkness said: “The Police Service’s main concern is that a child could find this knife and suffer an injury.
“I would urge parents to warn their children against playing with anything they find discarded at the side of a road, or in a field or bushes, as it could be the knife we are looking for. Please leave it where it is and contact police immediately,” he stated.
He believes the weapon used in the attack was a long-bladed kitchen knife and that it was dumped somewhere between Edenmore Road and the Tempo Road, approximately five miles north of Tempo village. He appealed to anyone who finds the weapon to call the police on 0845 600 8000.
A 34-year-old man, Gary Philip Moan, from Lisolvan Park, Brookeborough, is currently in custody charged with murdering Mr. Woods, wounding Kathleen McQuaid and threatening to kill Damien Crudden.
This article appeared in Impartial Reporter 02 Sep 10
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