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DETECTIVES JUST NORTH of the border in Newry are appealing for information following an aggravated burglary in the Slieveshan Park area of Kilkeel, Co Down.
At around midnight, two or three men forced their way into the home of an elderly man.
Once inside, the burglars tied up the man, in his late 60s, and then covered his head with a pillowcase. They then proceeded to ransack the house looking through drawers and cupboards.
The men stayed in the property for around 30 minutes, and left the resident tied up in his bedroom when they left.
He eventually managed to free himself, and raised the alarm through a neighbour.
A PSNI statement said that a sum of money was taken from the house, and the man suffered facial and head injuries.
Police in the north are appealing for anyone who noticed any suspicious activity in the area of Slieveshan Park yesterday evening to come forward.
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Horrific, we really don’t look after our elderly. Too many cases like this
@R2BApp: red thumb
@R2BApp: I think most of us do look after our elderly. To use a less-than-perfwlect analogy; if somebody beeaks into your car, steals it and burns it out, it doesn’t mean you haven’t been looking after your car. It means some skulbag nicked it.
@Neal, not Neil.: I meant at goverment level not a personal level. Majority of cases like this are rural elderly living alone. They are very vunerable to attacks like this, most attackers are known by the victim in these cases. One solution would be to have a grant available to OAPs to install a surveillance system, preferably one that is monitored by Gardai or outsourced to a security company in the area
@R2BApp: Ah, fair enough.Maybe next time use “they” instead of “we’!
Mandatory prison sentences for those guys required. Shall we start with ten years? they don’t deserve their freedom and hope they will be caught soon, vile cowards.
@Scundered: I am a great believer in labour camps for these urchins, many of whom have never worked a day in their lives. They get sentenced and are sent to camp where they are presented with a shovel and barrow. They are then instructed to dig a hole in the ground ,, say 1m square and 1m deep, and to use the dug up earth to fill the hole dug the previous day by their fellow inmate. They do this for six and a half days a week. Start of the day is at 6am, after breakfast and they finish at 6pm. The only escape from this drudgery would be classes which would prepare them for the outside world. After five years of that their tiny minds would be ready for the world.
putting pillowcase over his head, ransacking his house &leaving him tied up. very brave of them it must feel great intimmidating a lone pensioner like that.still at least the courts will take it very seriously these thugs will be looking at a hefty 3months suspended sentence if they’re ever caught
This is shocking. The ramifications go beyond this poor old man, every other elderly person living alone nearby will be badly affected. Maybe I’m jumping to conclusions but I think this type of crime could be the work of a certain ethnic group
Slight chance of some justice maybe up north. Down south the current prison sentence for such crime is 10-12 minutes behind bars for the 50th offence, unless the elderly person is a juge in which case its a 20 year sentence.
All the hallmark of our traveller ethnic waslerils
Low Life S##m that’s what they are hope that they get cot.to do that to an Elderly man….
Poor man!! What a frightning experience!! It pains me to hear of any kind of cruelty but attacking an old defenceless man is an all-time low in my opinion!! Fcuking degenerates!!!!!
Escaped on a pieball.
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