Policewoman jailed over shooting

[17th April 2008]

A policewoman has been jailed for trying to kill her former lover by shooting him with her police-issued handgun.

Diane Northcott, 41, pleaded guilty to trying to shoot Sergeant Laurence Smyth inside a Newtonabbey police station a year and a half ago.

They had been having an affair, but when he tried to end the relationship, Northcott shot him in the neck and thigh. Sergeant Smyth is now wheelchair-bound. Northcott was sentenced to 12 years in jail.

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