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PSNI Renews Appeal in Wayne Reid Homicide as Coleraine Searches Intensify

Detectives seek witness accounts plus footage via the Major Incident Public Portal.

Overview

  • Officers carried out renewed searches on Wednesday in the Society Street and Society Court areas of Coleraine as part of the investigation.
  • Detectives urged anyone who witnessed the attack or spoke to Wayne Reid afterward to contact police.
  • Wayne Reid, 43, was pronounced dead on January 12 following an alleged assault in the early hours of January 10 at an address in Society Street.
  • A post-mortem found he died from a spleen injury caused by blunt force trauma.
  • Darrell Joseph Shaw, 33, has been charged with murder, pleaded not guilty on January 19, and was remanded in custody, with reporting also noting nine arrests in total and seven people released on bail.