Police investigate after ten cars were vandalised across parts of east Belfast

POLICE are trying to establish if there is a link between attacks on ten cars across east Belfast overnight.

And they have appealed for anyone with information about the attacks to get in touch.

In particular, they are keen for information about a car being driven round parts of east Belfast which may have been in a number of the attacks.

In the first instance shortly before 11 pm on Friday, the side window of a car was smashed at Hillsborough Parade just off the Castlereagh Road.

Said a PSNI spokesperson: “The damage is alleged to have been caused by the occupants of a passing car.”

Then on Saturday morning, police received a report of damage to a second car in the area.

Just before 11 pm at Dunraven Avenue off the Bloomfield Road, five cars had their windows smashed possibly by a hammer or other weapaon.

Shortly after midnight, the rear window of a car was broken in Templemore Avenue.

The PSNI also received reports that two cars had been vandalised in the Ballyhackamore area not far from police headquarters.

Police say at this stage links between the incidents have not been established.