By Q Radio News
The security alert at the home of the elderly parents of a serving PSNI officer is now over.
The road has reopened and families have been allowed to return to their homes.
The device, found by the policeman’s mother on her doorstep this morning has been described as an elaborate hoax.
Police search the street outside the home of the elderly parents of a PSNI officer on the Lone Moor Road in #Derry. A suspect device was left on their doorstep this morning. Up to 40 homes have been evacuated. Masked youths have attacked police with bottles at the scene pic.twitter.com/qebTjyC4C2
— Leona O'Neill (@LeonaONeill1) May 3, 2018
Officers came under fire from stone and bottles throwing youths during the alert and extra resources had to be drafted into the area.
Masked youths are attacking police with stones and bottles in Stanley’s Walk at the site of a security alert in #Derry’s Lone Moor Road pic.twitter.com/y30xbBmHfv
— Leona O'Neill (@LeonaONeill1) May 3, 2018
Up to 40 families were evacuated from their homes at 10am this morning as Army Technical Officers carried out a controlled explosion.
It is not the first time the family’s home has been attacked. In 2007 a shotgun was blasted at their front door and in 2011 their car was attacked.
It is the third security alert in the city in 24 hours.
Another police officer’s parents were at the centre of a security alert in Drumleck Drive yesterday and a hoax device was left in Inishowen Gardens last night.
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