Councillor condemns 'reckless' gun attack on home

A Sinn Féin councillor has described a gun attack on a family home in the Waterside area of Londonderry as "reckless".

Three shots were fired through the living room window of a property in St Brecan's Park at about 20:30 GMT on Friday, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has said.

No one was inside the house at the time.

Sinn Féin's Christopher Jackson said the shooting had left the people who live there badly shaken by what he called a "cowardly" act.

Speaking to BBC Radio Foyle's North West Today programme on Monday, Jackson said it was by "sheer chance" that no one was in the house at the time.

Jackson said he visited the family following the shooting and that they were struggling to understand why they had been targeted.

"For someone to bring a weapon onto the streets at that time of night and fire shots into a property is reckless, to say the least, and there is no justification at all," he said.

"It has shocked not only this family but the wider community."

He said neighbours had rallied around the family who he described as "well-respected".

"They are good neighbours. Everyone gets on with them, and when I visited them there were a number of neighbours there to show solidarity with them."

The PSNI has appealed for anyone with information about the attack to come forward.