Targeted couple were on hit list
A Catholic couple are living in fear after loyalist pipe bombers
attacked their home near Whiteabbey on Sunday 29 July. Just
months ago, they were told their names were on a loyalist death
list.
The couple narrowly escaped death in their Abbeyville Park home
after their attackers broke their bedroom window with a brick and
then threw in a pipe bomb, which exploded minutes later at
11.20pm. Luckily, the delayed detonation allowed the couple to
escape uninjured. The explosion ripped a huge hole in the wall of
the bedroom where the couple had been sleeping.
This attack happened at the same time as Protestant teenager
Gavin Brett was killed by loyalists in Glengormley.
The couple, who have lived in the house for 22 years, said it was
too soon to decide what to do. It was one of three pipe bomb
attacks on Sunday night across County Antrim.
d in Larne, a Catholic family escaped injury when a pipe bomb
exploded in the rear of their garden in Loram Crescent around 2am
on Monday, 30 July.
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