Crown forces set man up
A West Belfastman was attacked by a loyalist mob after he was
flagged through an RUC/British army checkpoint on the Springfield
Road on Monday 6 July.
When the man approached the checkpoint in his car, he asked a
British soldier if it was safe to drive up the road, and he was
waved on. As he drove on he was flagged down by a loyalist mob
blocking the road. When he tried to get away he was attacked by
large stones and bricks that smashed the windows of the car. He
narrowly escaped serious injury. As he drove further down the
road he was blocked by the RUC who accused him of driving up the
road when he had been advised not to. One RUC man asked him if he
had placed the bricks in the car himself.
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