Catholic home pipe bombed

A mother of two children whose Banbridge home was attacked by loyalists with a pipe bomb said her family was targeted because they are Catholic.

Ann Casey was in bed when the device was thrown at the front window of her Maryville Drive home on Monday 30 August.

The pipe bomb, which was described by the PSNI as a viable device, bounced off the window and landed in the garden. It failed to explode. British Army bomb experts later defused the device.

Casey said the only reason she was targeted is because she is a Catholic but she will not be moving. "I love living here and I will not be intimidated out of my own home."