A barworker forced to leave Northern Ireland by IRA death threats has asked British MPs to take up his case.
Mr Joseph McCloskey (30) left his home last April after he removed a rowdy customer with "republican contacts" from the bar where he worked.
Masked men smashed down the front door of his house with a sledge hammer and told Mr McCloskey he had to leave Ireland.
Mr McCloskey told a news conference ahead of a Westminster Hall debate on paramilitary intimidation: "I left Ireland the next day. All in all it's been a traumatic experience for me and my family. We just want to get back home again".
Mr McCloskey's mother, Ms Bridie McCloskey (51), said she had "no doubt" that the IRA was responsible for the raid and the threats. She said Sinn Féin leaders knew about it after she contacted them.
She said: "After I chased them around for a while, Mitchel McLaughlin said he would talk to me. But all he wanted was my news - he wasn't helping us with anything. He more or less told me it was a figment of my imagination".
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