British soldier fired brick at youth
18 year old Lurgan youth Brendan McCartan received six
stitches in a head wound after being hit by a brick
thrown by a British soldier from the top of a
landrover.
The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday
morning 17 January as the youth assisted a young woman
who fell and hurt herself as she left a pub after a
night out.
McCartan and some friends were assisting the young
woman and had phoned an ambulance, but as they waited a
British army patrol passed.
Other young people leaving the pub shouted at the
British patrol of four jeeps, which turned further down
the road. As the patrol returned the young people threw
stones at the jeeps and the troops in them threw
bottles in response.
It was as the patrol drove past Brendan that a British
soldier stood up at the hatch and aimed a stone at the
group around the injured woman and struck McCartan on
the head.
McCartan has made a complaint to his solicitor.
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