POLICE have issued an appeal for information about the murder of PSNI officer Ronan Kerr on the 10th anniversary of the dissident republican attack which claimed his life.
The 25-year-old died when a bomb exploded under his car as he left his home in Highfield Close, outside Omagh, on April 2, 2011. He was on his way to work in Enniskillen and had been with the organisation for just one year when he was murdered.
Noone has ever been convicted of the murder by dissident republican paramilitaries, although one person was jailed for offences connected to the investigation.
Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell, from the PSNI's Major Investigation Team said he believes there are witnesses in the community who may hold the key to vital evidence.
"Ten years ago today Ronan left his home to travel to work," he said.
"Despicably, people living in his own community planned and plotted to kill him simply because he was a police officer bravely going out every day to protect people and make communities safer places to live and work.
“No one deserves to be murdered because of how they earn their respectable living and I would ask those living in the Omagh area, who know vital information about the bomb attack and those involved, to bring it forward to police on this 10 year anniversary."
DCI Caldwell said Constable Kerr's family "deserve to have some closure after a decade of intolerable grief."
He added: "It won’t take away their pain nor will it bring Ronan back, but seeing someone brought to justice for his sickening murder will allow them to close that chapter of the process at least."
In a statement issued by the family earlier this week they told of the "searing pain" they still feel from his death.
