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It fell off the back of an Assembly 2

Mark Devenport|09:54 UK time, Wednesday, 20 June 2007

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On Monday night, as Alex Salmond, Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness were tucking into a formal dinner, I got a tip off that two more lap top computers had gone missing from Stormont. This followed the theft of two laptops reported on this blog on the 4th June. The brand new lap tops in question belonged to the Alliance member Sean Neeson and went missing from his party's offices.

It looked like the Stormont sneak thief had made a return visit. The police were called and dusted down the Alliance office for fingerprints. People were searched as they left Parliament Buildings in case they were trying to smuggle the lap tops away. But nothing turned up.

Until the next day that is when Sean Neeson's colleague Kieran McCarthy enquired what the fuss had been about. Not, he presumed, the two lap tops he had locked away in a cupboard for safe keeping?

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