Larne threats
ON THE morning of 14 January the Larne Gazette received
an anonymous phone call from a woman who claimed to be
reading a prepared statement from a group calling
itself the Loyalist defence force (LDF). She said that
like the LVF they were not on ceasefire and threatened
to make its presence felt on Friday 16 January but
would give the Gazette a 30 minute warning. Nothing
subsequently happened.
However, the growing intimidation of Catholics in Larne
continues. In the early hours of Sunday 25 January, two
Catholic homes in St John's Place were attacked and
their windows smashed. In the early hours of Monday
morning a Catholic home in Lealies Drive in Craigyhill
was petrol bombed. This is the second attack on the
home in Craigyhill in recent weeks. Sinn Fein's
Catherine O'Hagan said: ``These three families just
want to get on with their lives, instead they have to
live with loyalist intimidation.''
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