PUB MURDER BID SUSPECT'S ‘TRICK OR TREAT' TAUNT

Man, 38, threw petrol bomb into busy bar

- BY DAVID YOUNG

A MAN facing attempted murder charges after an arson attack on a busy bar allegedly shouted “‘trick or treat" before throwing a lit petrol bomb directly at two people inside, acourt heard yesterday.

John Patrick Nixon, 38, appeared before a district judge in Newry, Co Down, accused of two counts of attempted murder in relation to an incident in Armagh city on Monday evening.

Nixon is also charged with several other offences alleged to have been committed on the same day, including criminal damage to property and a vehicle elsewhere in Armagh earlier that evening.

No defence application for bail was made at the remand hearing and the accused, who is from Irish Street in Armagh, was remanded into custody to appear before a judge again next month.