A SENIOR RUC officer has described an assault on 17 year old Belfast girl, Ms Kerry Deeds as one of the most savage he had come across. The girl was beaten so fiercely by men wielding hurleys that her arms were broken.
Insp Roy Eland said had it not been for residents and a passing motorist who heard her screaming with pain and shock in a field where she had been abandoned the consequences might have been far worse.
Police were alerted by the residents and the motorist around 3 a.m. on Saturday. They found the teenager lying in a field at Woodlands Grange in west Belfast. In addition to her broken arms she was cut and bruised.
In another attack, a 25 year old had his ankle broken by a man with a hammer after 10 masked men, who claimed to be from the IRA broke into his home at West Rock Crescent in west Belfast shortly before 10 a.m. yesterday.
Dr Philip McGarry, an Alliance Party councillor, accused "republican vigilantes" of being responsible for the two assaults and challenged Sinn Fern to state its position on such beatings.
"Sinn Fein's silence on these vicious beatings speaks far more eloquently of their stance on peace and justice than any number of carefully worded speeches and press statement, which can only be seen as patently dishonest," he added.
