HC Deb 08 January 2002 vol 377 c570W
Mr. Dodds

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what assessment has been made of responsibility for the armed theft of electrical goods from a warehouse near Belfast on 21 November; [24141]

(2) what assessment has been made of responsibility for the armed robbery of cigarettes at Belfast docks in June. [24097]

Jane Kennedy

The police believe that the robberies involved well-organised criminal gangs with association to republican paramilitary groups.