This incident needs to be held in perspective though, as horrific and extreme as it was it was an isolated incident. Creagen was a hardened and habitual organised criminal that was probably already going to prison for the rest of his life when he set the ambush, he was wanted for double murder and his later trial found him guilty of killing two rival organised criminals. That alone with his record would have either led to a whole life order or an indefinite sentence with little chance of ever getting out, he simply wanted to kill some police officers. As he turned himself in afterwards it wasn't even a suicide by cop situation, he had nothing to lose and wanted to kill.tangoprime said:
The grenades is unfortunately more common than you would think and they get seized every now and then here, thanks mainly due to the conflict in Northern Ireland. Criminal networks on the mainland UK set up extensive supply chains from Eastern Europe to the province to supply paramilitaries with weapons, as the conflict wound down those weapons suddenly had nowhere to go. Some paramilitaries also sold some weapons back to the black markets instead of decommissioning them.
