3mths jail for Ronan abuse thug; courts 1.

A THUG who made derogatory comments about murdered police office Ronan Kerr was jailed for three months yesterday.

Stephen Paul Coyle, 33, pleaded guilty to breaching a security cordon and resisting a police officer during a bomb alert at Clarendon Street in Derry in May.

District Judge Barney McElholm was told Coyle, who had 115 previous convictions, lifted the police tape at the cordoned off area and insisted he was going to a nearby fishing tackle shop.

When an officer ran towards him, Coyle, from Mimosa Court in the Waterside area of Derry, became aggressive and verbally abusive and then made the comment about Const Kerr.

Jailing him, Mr McElholm said his comments about Const Kerr, which were not read out in court, "go beyond the distasteful".

Const Kerr was killed last April when a booby-trap bomb exploded under his car in Omagh, Co Tyrone.

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Publication:	The Mirror (London, England)
Date:	Jul 30, 2011
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