Family flees home after loyalist attack

A Catholic family of four had to flee their home on the Parkhill estate in Antrim after an attack by a gang of masked unionist paramilitaries on Sunday night, 5 October.

Siobhan Robb, her partner and their two young children had been inundated with bogus fast food deliveries and taxis all evening before the situation became more serious with the appearance of masked loyalists outside the house at Donegore Drive.

Shortly after midnight, three masked men approached the house with iron bars and baseball bats and began smashing the downstairs windows, before turning their attention to the front door, smashing it to try to gain entry.

Robb told how she looked out of the window and saw a man wearing a balaclava while another man approached the house and shouted "you fenian bastard" and began smashing up the house and the car.

"We ran into the back hall and barricaded ourselves in until the PSNI arrived," she said.

The family have left their home and are determined not to return