Girl left shaken after drug paraphernalia are dumped in her lawn

A NORTH Belfast girl has spoken of her concern after needles and medicine paraphernalia have been dumped in her entrance lawn.

Lucille Larkin was once stunned when the pieces have been discarded within the entrance lawn of her Ballymoney Side road house within the Rosapenna house on Tuesday morning.

“I assumed it was once simply garbage in the beginning that were dumped,” she defined.

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“However there was once what appeared heroin needles and medicine paraphernalia, some used and a few no longer.

“It was once very horrifying. I’m alone with a tender kid. The needles have been all up the trail.

“I’m shaken up. I do not know why my entrance lawn could be centered. This kind of stuff is so bad to be mendacity in regards to the boulevard and in folks’s gardens.”

A 31-year-old girl arrested on suspicion of attack and prison harm following the incident has been launched pending a report back to the Public Prosecution Provider.

PSNI Inspector Neil Ferguson stated: “Police won a file about discarded needles and medicine paraphernalia within the Ballymoney Side road house of North Belfast on Tuesday morning.

“We liaised with our Belfast Town Council colleagues to organize for the pieces to be safely disposed of. Our recommendation to any individual discovering a syringe or needle is not to contact it however touch police or the district council who will cast off it safely.

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“We’d additionally remind those that use needles of the dangers to others they purpose by means of discarding them so wantonly. Such pieces will also be bad, particularly to more youthful youngsters who might not be acutely aware of what they’ve discovered.

“Police will proceed to make use of prime visibility centered patrols and each way at our disposal to disrupt and arrest drug sellers concerned within the sale and provide of gear, and put them prior to the courts.

“Drug and substance misuse and working is a policing precedence and we will be able to proceed to paintings with communities and spouse companies to cut back the specter of destructive and criminal activity. We’re asking everybody for his or her improve and co-operation in tackling this drawback throughout the prison justice device.

“We’re dedicated to addressing unlawful drug use and provide. Any person who’s suspected of involvement within the provide of gear can be expecting to be arrested by means of police and introduced prior to the courts.

“All of us have a duty to assist in making the place we are living more secure for everybody. Reporting crimes or incidents that affect to your high quality of existence is helping center of attention our patrols the place they’re wanted and take certain motion. Ring us on 101, file on-line right here or discuss without delay in your Neighbourhood Crew.”