| Culzie | Date: Sunday, 2011-09-11, 3:07 PM | Message # 1 |
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| SAVAGED IN BROAD DAYLIGHT
The courage of a Good Samaritan may have been the life or death difference for a Ballysillan teenager subjected to a horrific beating in his local playing field on 25 July 2011.
Ballysillan playing fields are on thirteen year-old Jonathan’s doorstep and seemed like the natural place for the quiet North Belfast lad to go for a stroll with a school friend and two girls. However, an innocent evening turned to horror for the teenagers and passers-by around 9.00pm when, as the lads sat on a park bench near the BMX track, they were approached by a group of four 17 or 18 year-old youths. The youths were reported to have entered the playing fields earlier from the Deerpark Road entrance, and one was wearing a Celtic football shirt. It is understood that they had been seen in the area on previous occasions, but were not local.
After a number of apparently friendly questions that may have been an attempt to establish where he was from, Jonathan was punched to the ground, where he was then repeatedly kicked with such ferocity that his teeth sliced through his lips and one of his eyeballs was lacerated. He suffered other head and facial injuries. As the group continued to kick him in the head as he lay on the ground, one was heard shouting “kill him, kill the hun”. And they might have done just that if a passer-by had not stopped to intervene. The youths emptied their helpless victim’s pockets and stole his mobile phone before running off shouting “kill all huns”.
Police and ambulance were called and the victim was taken to hospital where he was detained overnight for further tests and observation. It is expected that he will make a full recovery although there remained some concern about damage to his eye.
An eyewitness said they had never before witnessed anything as brutally barbaric and thought that the youths were genuinely trying to kill the boy. The witness said that it seemed they continued to kick him in the head as hard as they could and appeared to have no intention of stopping. The friends who were with the victim were so traumatised by what they saw that some have been unable to sleep since.
Jonathan’s mum described her only son as a responsible lad who could be trusted to keep away from bother. “When the police rapped the door to tell us Jonathan had been taken in an ambulance after an apparently sectarian attack, we didn’t know what to think. We still haven’t got over it - but we have to.” She revealed how her son told her that there were much younger children playing nearby and how he said “it was better that they got me because if they had done this to a younger kid, they could have been killed”.
His mum explained: “that’s why we need to get this story out – to warn other parents and park-users. Who knows how far they will go if this happens again?”
Police
Police did not release any information regarding the incident until a week later when contacted by Shankill Mirror and a statement appealing for information was then issued. Anyone with information should contact Tennent Street on 0845 600 8000 or Crimestoppers on 0845 555 111. The statement continued “A sectarian motive is one line of enquiry”.
Latest: police did not seek information from witnesses until 10 days after the attack and according to the victim’s family, failed to take a later opportunity to apprehend those responsible. No further details can be given as the matter has been referred to the Police Ombudsman.
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| RSAUB | Date: Sunday, 2011-09-11, 4:43 PM | Message # 2 |
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| Read about this attack in the Shankill mirror, how this didn't make the mainstream media is a disgrace. Just like the two Protestants who have been by gangs of republicans in Coleraine within past few weeks and months.
Just makes you wonder whats happening out there.
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| Culzie | Date: Sunday, 2011-09-11, 5:27 PM | Message # 3 |
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| True RSAUB. It makes the headlines when the Prods hit back. PP was saying on his Blog that the papers in the States were blaming Protestants for the recent trouble on the Newtownards Rd. Its always the way, and has been happening from 1969 and Bombay St etc.
Your'e not allowed to hit back and get the better of the argument as you are then labelled as the aggressor. Think its about time politican and the media started to look at the agitators and stirrers who provoke the trouble and then whinge and put the 'poor mouth' on when they get the worst of it.
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| RSAUB | Date: Sunday, 2011-09-11, 9:12 PM | Message # 4 |
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| We will never win our argument through the mainstream media, they just don't want to hear our side of the story, so alternative media like the internet has to be used to our advantage, we're better off not even playing the mainstream PR game and just doing what needs to be done for the good of our Country.
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| Culzie | Date: Sunday, 2011-09-11, 9:39 PM | Message # 5 |
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| Good point. Agreed.
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