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SECTARIAN ATTACKS 2OO4
Date & Time 10 January 2004 @ 7pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Attack on car
Summary A man was travelling down the Ligoniel Road with his young daughter in the back seat of his car when 6 loyalists came out of the Fisherman’s Chippy and threw stones at the car.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & Time 10 January 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Attack on school children
Summary Two loyalists on a motor scooter mounted the footpath and drove straight for school children leaving St Vincent de Paul School.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & Time 11 January 2004 @ 11.45pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Attack on car
Summary Two carloads of loyalists attacked OAP car, outside his house on the Ligoniel Road.
PSNI Response
Source CW, NBN, RN
Date & Time 11 January 2004 @ 11.45pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Attack on homes
Summary Two carloads of loyalists attack 2 homes on the Ligoniel Road.
PSNI Response
Source CW, NBN, RN
Date & Time 16 January 2004
Area Ballysillan
Type of attack Suspect device found
Summary Suspect device found outside Our Lady of Mercy Girls School on Friday morning.
PSNI Response
Source CW, IN
Date & Time 16 January 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Suspect device found
Summary A community centre on the Ligoniel Road was cordoned off while a car with a gas cylinder attached was examined.
PSNI Response
Source CW, IN, RES
Date & Time 16 January 2004
Area Newtownabbey
Type of attack 3 Controlled explosions
Summary In Newtownabbey, around 30 people were evacuated from their homes following an alert at Mill Road, where three controlled explosions were carried out.
PSNI Response
Source CW, IN, NBN
Date & Time 16 January 2004
Area Ardoyne
Type of attack Missiles Hurled from passing car
Summary On Friday evening 2 suspect devices were thrown from a car passing through Alliance/Etna Drive.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES, RN
Date & Time 17 January 2004
Area Ardoyne
Type of attack Suspect device found
Summary Package found in the grounds of Holy Cross Girls School early on Saturday morning.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES, RN, NBN
Date & Time 17 January 2004
Area Ardoyne
Type of attack Suspect device found
Summary Suspect device found on Alliance/Etna Drive on Saturday evening.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & Time 19 January 2004 @ 6am
Area Ardoyne
Type of attack Suspect devices found
Summary Suspicious objects – later described by British army bomb disposal experts as elaborate hoaxes – were discovered at Holy Cross primary school on Ardoyne Road.
Both hoax bombs had genuine detonator cord attached to them.
PSNI Response
Source CW, IN, RES
Date & Time 19 January 2004 @ 8am
Area Ardoyne
Type of attack Suspect devices found
Summary Suspicious objects – later described by British army bomb disposal experts as elaborate hoaxes – were discovered at St Gabriel’s College on Crumlin Road early yesterday.
Both hoax bombs had genuine detonator cord attached to them.
PSNI Response
Source CW, IN, RES
Date 19 January 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Attack on car
Summary A local couple escaped serious injury when a gang of loyalists attacked their car with bottles. Although the incident occurred in an area covered by CCTV, the PSNI said they knew nothing of the attack.
PSNI Response The PSNI said they knew nothing of the attack.
Source RN, CW, RES
Date 19 January 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Youths attacked
Summary Local nationalist youths were fired upon by loyalists, using what may have been a pellet gun, as they walked up the Ligoniel Road.
Source RN, CW
Date 20 January 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Intimidation
Summary A mother from Ligoniel in Belfast, whose home has been attacked by loyalists score of times in the past number of years, has expressed disbelief at the PSNI over its refusal to give the go ahead for the Housing Executive to buy her home under the special purchase of evacuated dwellings scheme (SPED).
She has said she cannot take any more and is moving out.
Source RN, CW
Date & Time 1 February 2004 @ 7.30am
Area Shore Road
Type of attack Knife attack
Summary A young man was attacked by two loyalists armed with a machete or large kitchen knife on Sunday 1 February. The 24 year old, a father of one, was set upon at 7.30am by two men who jumped out of a white Vauxhall Astra car near the Boundary bar on the Shore Road.
They attempted to stab their victim repeatedly. The man believes he was saved by a passing car, which caused the gang to make off towards the loyalist Rathcoole Estate.
PSNI Response
Source RN, RES, IN, CW
Date & Time 8 February 2004
Area Bilston Road
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary A catholic mother of 2 was travelling up the Bilston Rd in her car with her 2 children aged 15 months and 4 years. A bottle was thrown at her car by a man of about 20 yrs. Rear window of car was smashed; the two babies suffered cuts to their faces.
PSNI Response Said it was not a sectarian attack
Source CW
Date & Time 9 February 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary A mans car was attacked as he sat at traffic lights at the junction of the Ligoniel Road and Crumlin Road. Car was severely damaged in attack.
PSNI Response
Source CW
Date & Time 13 February 2004 @ 11.15pm
Area Glantrassna Drive
Type of attack Windows smashed in house
Summary A number of loyalists used a plank to smash the front window of the house. There were two adults and 2 young children in the house at the time of attack; luckily no one was seriously injured.
PSNI Response They arrived 10 minutes after being contacted, took statements and said they would keep a presence in the area-they did not do this.
Source CW, IW, RES
Date 18 February 2004
Area Clifton Park Avenue @ 10.45pm
Type of attack Homes attacked paint/petrol bombs
Summary A north Belfast woman was in the living room of her Clifton Park Avenue home around 10pm when a car pulled up outside and its occupants began hurling petrol bombs.
The victim is the mother of a four-month old baby and a one-year old daughter. She has lived in the house for only four weeks. After the attack on Wednesday last, she fled her home and now says she is unsure whether she will ever return.
PSNI Response Arrived on the scene 5 minutes after being contacted.
Source RN, RES
Date 18 February 2004 @11pm
Area Rosevale Street
Type of attack Petrol bomb attack
Summary A number of petrol bombs were thrown over the peace wall, some landed in the back gardens of residents in Rosevale Street.
PSNI Response PSNI arrived 10 minutes after being contacted
Source CW, RES, IW
Date 18 February 2004 @ 7pm
Area Cliftondene Gardens
Type of attack Home attacked – windows smashed with bricks
Summary A 105-year-old senior citizen was sleeping in the downstairs bedroom of her Cliftondene Gardens home in the Deerpark area of North Belfast when a loyalist gang arrived and began to attack houses there.
The bed-ridden pensioner was showered with glass after four bricks suddenly smashed through her front window. Badly shaken after the incident, she had to be moved to a temporary accommodation in a local nursing home by ambulance.
PSNI Response Arrived 15 minutes after being contacted
Source RN, (CW), Residents, IW
Date 18 February 2004
Area Cliftondene Gardens
Type of attack Home attacked with paint bombs
Summary Another neighbour, who is disabled, was also in bed when two paint bombs were thrown through the window of his home, destroying the living room.
Local residents reported hearing three gunshots before the unionist mob of 25 headed off into the nearby Glenbryn Estate. They have no doubt the attacks are part of a continuing campaign by unionists to drive Catholics from the area.
PSNI Response Arrived after 15 minutes and took statements and carried away bricks and paint
Source RN, CW, IW, RES
Date 28 February 2004 @ 11.40pm
Area Cliftondene Gardens
Type of attack Home attacked
Summary A young man whose home had been targeted by loyalists 10 days earlier was standing at his front door when a crowd of 10 loyalists coming from the direction of the Hedge Hog and Bucket Bar hurled sectarian abuse at him like (Fenian bastard).
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES, IW
Date 29 February 2004 @ 10pm
Area Cliftondene Gardens
Type of attack Intimidation
Summary A large green car carrying 3 men in it crawled past the front of a house in Cliftondene Gardens, it then turned and crawled back again looking at the house.
PSNI Response
Source CW, IW
Date & Time 7 March 2004 @ 7.15pm
Area Charnwood Avenue
Type of attack Attack on home
Summary A gang of 5 loyalist youths broke all the downstairs front windows and the glass panels around the front door using planks of wood they found in a skip. The youths were spotted leaving the Cavehill Inn before the attack took place. The homeowners were not in the house at the time of attack.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES, IW
Date & Time 7 March 2004
Area Glantrashna Drive
Type of attack Attack on home
Summary 2 youths threw bottles at the house, the homeowner gave chase and the youths ran into the Somerton Inn, they came back out with a crowd and attacked the homeowner. The crowd dispersed when another resident called the police.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES, IW
Date & time 7 March 2004
Area Antrim Road
Type of attack PSNI harass teenagers in hostel
Summary PSNI members held three teenagers at gunpoint and warned them not to move. They burst into a hostel for homeless children and held guns to their heads while they were sleeping.
PSNI Response
Source RN, RES, NBN
Date & Time 17 March 2004 @ 1.30am
Area Ardoyne
Type of attack Attack on home
Summary A young man walked up the Ardoyne Road with a brick in his hand, he then walked back down again and threw the brick threw the window of a house on the Ardoyne Road – he then ran off.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 17 March 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Death Threat
Summary A Ligoniel mother of 3 who has had her home attacked on several occasions has received a death threat from loyalists.
PSNI Response They notified the woman of the threat.
Source PSNI, RES, NBN, IN
Date & Time 18 March 2004 @ 9pm
Area Crumlin Rd
Type of attack Attack on home
Summary The front windows were smashed on a home on the Crumlin Road. The house has been attacked on several other occasions. The owner believes it is sectarian and that the youths are from Hesketh/Wheatfield.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & Time 19 March 2004 @ 2.30-3am
Area Ardoyne
Type of attack Attack on homes/car
Summary 2 homes were damaged with paint bombs, and a garden and car were also damaged in the attack.
PSNI Response They were contacted and arrived shortly after 3am they took statements and although assuring residents that they would stay they left after 15minutes.
Source CW
Date & Time 27 March 2004 @ midnight
Area Westland Gardens
Type of attack Home attacked
Summary 4 loyalists attempted to smash the windows of a catholic home with a road sign. The windows were made from strengthened glass so the attackers could not break them. There were two young children and a childminder in the house at the time of attack.
PSNI Response They arrived 25-30 minutes after being contacted. They made the homeowners feel as if they were responsible and they refused to go after those responsible.
Source RES, IW
Date & Time 29 March 2004 @ 1am
Area Ardoyne
Type of attack Attack on home
Summary The front windows were smashed on a home on the Ardoyne Road.
PSNI Response Came out and took a statement from owner
Source CW
Date & Time 3 April 2004
Area Ardoyne
Type of attack Homes attacked
Summary Attacks in and around Ardoyne occurred when up to 20 loyalists, coming from the direction of Twaddell Avenue, attacked a number of Catholic-owned houses on the Crumlin Road, near the junction of Hesketh Park.
Over the past number of weeks, several homes in Ardoyne, the Cliftonville Road area and in Westland Gardens have been attacked by loyalists.
PSNI Response
Source RN, CW, RES, IN
Date & Time 12 April 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Cars attacked
Summary 2 Cars attacked at the bottom of the Ligoniel Road, one car was attacked 3 times in one night. The third time car was attacked by 6-7 Loyalists using iron bars.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & Time 13 April 2004 @ 4.45am
Area Glandore Avenue
Type of attack Home attacked
Summary A bottle of milk was thrown threw the front window of the house causing a lot of damage to the inside of the house.
PSNI Response Were contacted and promised they would do their best.
Source CW, RES, IW
Date & Time 13 April 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Cars attacked
Summary A car that was attacked 3 times on the previous night was attacked again, twice, resulting in the windscreen being broken again.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & Time 13 April 2004
Area Glandore Avenue
Type of attack Homes and car attacked
Summary Loyalists threw a brick through the front window of the flat and the resident’s car which was parked outside was also attacked.
PSNI Response Arrived 5 minutes after being contacted and took statements.
Source CW, RES
Date & Time 18 April 2004
Area Ballysillan Road
Type of attack Cars attacked
Summary 2 cars travelling along the Ballysillan Roadd turning up onto the Bilston Road were attacked by Loyalist youths resulting in the headlights on both cars being smashed. The attack happened beside the Ballysillan Leisure Centre.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & Time 18 April 2004
Area Longlands Estate (off the Whitewell Road)
Type of attack Homes attacked
Summary Up to 20 masked loyalists crossed the Arthur Bridge, as the PSNI watched, and attacked homes in the estate.
At 7.30pm, a number of petrol bombs were thrown into the estate and exploded outside the home of a wheelchair bound woman.
PSNI Response Watched as homes were attacked
Source RN, CW, RES
Date & Time 18 April 2004
Area Glandore Avenue
Type of attack Stabbing and assault
Summary A Catholic man was viciously beaten and stabbed with broken bottles in Glandore Avenue in North Belfast by two loyalists as he made his way home. The man’s ear was almost severed in the sectarian attack but surgeons managed to save it by inserting 32 stitches into the gaping wound. The victim also needed eight staples to close an open wound to his head.
PSNI Response
Source RN, RES, IN, BT, NL
Date & Time 22 April 2004
Area Whitewell Road
Type of attack Home attacked with shotgun pellets
Summary Loyalists used a pipe bomb, packed with shotgun pellets, to attack the home of a Catholic family living on the main Whitewell Road.
PSNI response
Source RN, RES, CW
Date & Time 23 April 2004 @ 3.45pm
Area Crumlin Road
Type of attack Verbal sectarian abuse
Summary A gang of Girls from the Girls Model Secondary School hurled abuse at pupils leaving St Gabriel’s. When the girls mothers arrived to collect them they too joined in on the sectarian abuse.
PSNI Response PSNI were present but did not intervene.
Source CW
Date & Time 24 April 2004 @ 1.20am
Area Ballysillan
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary Car attacked outside Ballysillan Leisure Centre resulting in rear passenger window being broken and dents put in side panel. A concrete block was also thrown in front of the car to try and get it to stop.
PSNI Response
Source CW
Date & Time 24 April 2004 @ 9pm
Area Glandore Avenue
Type of attack Homes attacked and assault
Summary Loyalists smashed the window and pushed the front door in and stabbed the owner of the place with a bottle.
PSNI Response PSNI arrived and took the details
Source RN, CW, RES
Date & Time 27/28 April 2004
Area Crumlin Road
Type of attack Youth attacked
Summary A young lad from St Gabriel’s was held down and punched in the face by a gang of youths from Hesketh.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & Time 30 April 2004
Area New Lodge
Type of attack Attempted abduction
Summary Four Catholic schoolboys in two separate incidents in the New Lodge and Cliftonville Road areas of North Belfast on Friday 30 April were victims of attempted abductions.
It later emerged that a man, driving an old style Ford Fiesta, offered two other boys from St Patrick’s a lift to school. They also ran off and reported the incident when they arrived at school.
PSNI Response
Source RN, RES, CW
Date & Time April 2004
Area Graymount
Type of attack Death threats
Summary UDA death threats were issued against a young Catholic family living in the Graymount area of North Belfast. The warning was passed to the family by the PSNI stating that it was from the UDA and that the family should leave the area immediately.
PSNI response
Source RN, RES, CW, PSNI
Date & time 1 May 2004 @ 10.30pm
Area Cliftonville Road
Type of attack Machete attack
Summary A 30-year-old North Belfast Catholic escaped with his life after a vicious sectarian attack on Saturday 1 May.
The man was walking home from a party along the Cliftonville Road at around 10.30pm when a car pulled up beside him and three loyalists jumped out.
They shouted, “Get the Fenian Bastard”, and slashed him across the head with a machete. The blow almost severed the man’s ear as it opened a wound from his eardrum to the base of his skull.
The man almost lost his ear in the attack and told the media that doctors who treated him in the Mater Hospital said he had lost so much blood that he was lucky to be alive.
PSNI Response
Source RN, IW, RES, IN, BT
Date & Time 3 May 2004 @ 10pm
Area New Lodge
Type of attack Attack on home with ball bearing
Summary A group of loyalists were responsible for a ball bearing attack on a house in Stratheden Street in the New Lodge area of North Belfast. The sectarian attack happened just after 10pm on Monday night as the owner of the house was attempting to get his three-year-old son off to sleep. The ball bearing smashed through the front window, narrowly missing the pair.
PSNI Response
Source RN, RES
Date & Time 5 May 2004 @ 3.20pm
Area Glebe Road West – Glengormley
Type of attack Assault with hammers
Summary Three 13-year-old boys, attending Hightown school, were attacked by a gang of loyalists wielding hammers on the Glebe Road West in Glengormley Wednesday 5 May as they were going home from school.
Two of the boys were treated in hospital for severe bruising to their bodies as a result of the sectarian attack.
PSNI Response
Source RN, RES
Date & time 17 May 2004 @ midnight
Area Bawnmore Park
Type of attack Homes attacked with paint bombs
Summary Three nationalist homes in Bawnmore Park in Newtownabbey were attacked on Monday night 17 May with paint bombs. The assailants drove into the area from the loyalist Rathcoole estate in a dark car, believed to be a Peugeot, to carry out their attack.
The men got out and threw a number of paint bombs at the three houses, breaking the living room windows of two of the homes and drenching them in paint.
As residents of the street emerged from their homes, the loyalists sped off in the direction of Rathcoole leaving a full crate of paint bombs behind them.
PSNI Response
Source RN, RES, CW
Date & Time 22 May 2004 @ midnight
Area Cliftonpark Avenue
Type of attack Attack on home
Summary A number of loyalists jumped out of a car and smashed the windows of the house with bottles, (this was the same house that had been petrol bombed in February.)
PSNI Response They arrived along with soldiers and took statements.
Source IW, RES
Date & Time 23 May 2004 @ 5.15am
Area Clanchatten Street
Type of attack Attempted robbery of a shop
Summary A number of loyalist youths were spotted trying to break into a shop on the corner of Clanchatten Street, local residents confronted them and they ran into Halidays Road where another 4 men were waiting with hoods on. The police were contacted.
PSNI Response 4 jeeps arrived, 1 faced toward the Haliday’s Road entrance and the rest faced the Nationalists. They stayed 10 minutes and then left.
Source IW, RES, CW
Date & Time 25th May 2004
Area Parkside Gardens
Type of attack Homes attacked
Summary Loyalist youths got onto the roof of empty houses in Mountcollier Street and began to throw slates at the back of homes on Parkside Gardens, there was no damage done.
PSNI Response
Source IW, CW, Residents
Date & time 28 May 2004@ 2pm
Area Wyndham Street
Type of attack School Children attacked
Summary Pupils leaving Bunscoil Bhenn Madigan were stoned.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 29 May 2004 @ 5.30am
Area North Queen Street
Type of attack Home attacked
Summary 4 youths from Tigers bay attacked a home in North Queen Street, they attempted to kick the door in, but residents arrived and they moved back telling people “They would march where ever they liked”.
PSNI Response PSNI arrived and said it was all caught on camera
Source CW, RES
Date & time 7 June 2004 @10pm
Area Bawnmore
Type of attack Attempted Stabbing
Summary A gang of loyalists driving around wearing Celtic tops attempted to stab someone outside the Boundary Bar, no one injured.
PSNI Response
Source CW
Date & time 18 June 2004 @ 10pm
Area Parkside Gardens
Type of attack Homes attacked
Summary A gang of loyalists from Mountcollier threw missiles at homes on Parkside Gardens, windows were smashed.
PSNI Response
Source CW, IW, RES
Date & time 26 June 2004 @ 9pm
Area Ballysillan
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary Windscreen smashed on a car driving past Ballysillan Leisure Centre at 9pm.
PSNI Response
Source CW
Date & time 26 June 2004 @ 8pm
Area Ballysillan
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary Car was attacked by loyalists throwing beer bottles at it as it drove by McKenna’s Bar in Ballysillan.
PSNI Response
Source CW
Date & time 28 June 2004
Area Ligoniel Road
Type of attack School Bus attacked
Summary Edmund Rice School Bus attacked at junction of the Ligoniel Road/Crumlin Road. Two men boarded the bus and assaulted 7 of the children on the bus.
PSNI Response
Source CW, IN
Date & time 3 July 2004 @ 7.30pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary A resident from Ligoniel had his car attacked with bottles at the Ballysillan playing fields, the front windscreen was smashed and his daughter was travelling in the front.
PSNI Response
Source RES
Date & time 3 July 2004 @ 8.15pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary A resident from Ligoniel had his car attacked with bottles at the turn of the road lights.
PSNI Response
Source RES
Date & time 4 July 2004
Area Mater Hospital
Type of attack Death Threat
Summary A 25-year-old Catholic employee of Belfast's Mater Hospital has been told by the PSNI that he is under threat of death from loyalists.
The man arrived for work on Sunday 4 July and was told the PSNI wanted to speak to him. When the man contacted the PSNI he was informed that loyalists had issued a threat against him.
PSNI Response According to the PSNI, an anonymous caller to the Samaritans had warned that the Catholic worker would be shot dead in the hospital that night (Sunday).
Source RN, IN, PSNI
Date & time 6 July 2004 @ 7pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary A resident from Ligoniel had their car attacked at the turn of the road. The passenger door was damaged.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 7 July 2004 @ 4.45pm
Area Ligoniel Road
Type of attack Loyalists block Ligoniel Road
Summary Residents travelling on the 57 Bus had to leave the bus and walk through the protesters. Sectarian abuse was hurled i.e. fenian bastards. Protest ended at 6pm. Women walking past were attacked with stones.
PSNI Response PSNI stood and watched.
Source CW, RES
Date & time 7 July 2004 @ 6.55pm
Area Ligoniel Road
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary A resident’s car was attacked with bricks; the driver was hit on the neck and hand. The attack happened at Ligoniel Park top gates.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 8 July 2004 @ 4.30pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Loyalists block Ligoniel Road
Summary Loyalist’s block Ligoniel road for a 2nd night. Once again, residents travelling by bus had to walk through the blockade while protesters taunted them. Protest ended at 6.15pm
PSNI Response PSNI stood and watched.
Source CW, RES
Date & time 9 July 2004 @1pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary A resident’s car was attacked with bricks at the turn of the road lights. The passenger door was damaged.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 9 July 2004 @ 4.50pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary Loyalist crowd attack resident’s car. A woman lay across the bonnet of the car attempting to pull wipers off. A piece of metal was thrown at the driver door; the driver fearing for his life drove away from the crowd.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 9 July 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Loyalists barricade road
Summary A crowd of loyalists once again blocked the Ligoniel road. The protest ended at 6pm.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 9 July 2004 @ 6.15pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary A Residents car was attacked with bricks at the Ligoniel Park bottom gate where the loyalist protest had ended 15 minutes earlier.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 10 July 2004 @11am
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary A resident’s car was attacked with bricks at Ligoniel park gates. No damage sustained.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 10 July 2004 @12 noon
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Loyalists block road
Summary Crowd getting bigger each time. One nationalist parent who had to walk through the blockade to get home was told she would never walk that part of the road again. Protest ended at 1.00pm.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 10 July 2004 @7pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Loyalists block road
Summary Loyalists block the Ligoniel Road for the 2nd time in 1 day. Abuse and sectarian taunts were shouted to nationalists on the Ligoniel Road. Protest ended at 8pm.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 10 July 2004 @ 9.15pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary Resident driving down the road had his car headlight smashed by a crowd throwing bricks from Ligoniel Park bottom gates.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 11 July 2004 @ 3pm
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Road blocked
Summary Loyalist’s block road again, sectarian songs were played and abuse shouted. Protest ended at 4pm.
PSNI Response
Source RES, CW
Date & time 11 July 2004 @ 6.30 am
Area Glandore Avenue
Type of attack Attack on homes
Summary A number of loyalists threw bottles and bricks at the windows of three homes on Glandore Avenue.
PSNI Response Took details and confirmed the attack, left after taking statements.
Source RN, RES, IN
Date & time 11 July 2004 @ 7 am
Area Glandore Avenue
Type of attack Car attacked
Summary Loyalists attacked the car of a resident who looked out the window as homes were being attacked in his street. They jumped on his car and threw a can of harp at his window when he looked out.
PSNI Response Were contacted but never arrived.
Source IW, RES
Date & time 12 July 2004 @ 6.45am
Area Wyndham Street
Type of attack Shots fired at Nationalists
Summary A small fight broke out between a number of nationalist youths and loyalists from Torrens. The fight was broke up by a number of residents from Wyndham Street. The loyalists appeared again 5 minutes later dressed in military regalia firing a number of shots at nationalists standing near by.
PSNI Response
Source RES, CW
Date & time 14 July 2004
Area Deerpark Parade
Type of attack Attack on home
Summary Snooker balls and golf balls were thrown from the Ballysillan playing fields into homes on Deerpark Parade. Residents say this is a regular occurrence.
PSNI Response Arrived and took details.
Source RN, IW, RES
Date & time 15 July 2004
Area Glengormley
Type of attack Attack on home and car
Summary A 22-year-old Catholic man is preparing to leave his home on Burnthill Gardens in Glengormley, County Antrim, after loyalists attacked his home with bricks and paint bombs on Thursday night 15 July, breaking windows and vandalising his car.
PSNI Response
Source RN, RES
Date & time 15 July 2004 @ 5.45pm
Area Alexander Park
Type of attack Youth attacked
Summary A 12-year-old youth was attacked in the park by several loyalist youths. He sustained bruising and cuts to the face.
PSNI Response The PSNI took statements from the youth’s family in the mater hospital.
Source CW, RES, IW
Date & time 17 July 2004
Area Elmfield Road area of Glengormley
Type of attack Cars attacked
Summary A number of cars belonging to Catholics were vandalised by loyalists in the Elmfield Road area of Glengormley at the weekend.
PSNI Response
Source RN, RES
Date & time 17 July 2004 @ 9.30 pm
Area Wyndham Street
Type of attack Home attacked with paint bomb
Summary 2 loyalists were spotted throwing a paint bomb at the front of a house at the corner of Wyndham Street.
PSNI Response
Source RES, CW
Date & time 21 July 2004
Area Duncairn Gardens
Type of attack House attacked
Summary Loyalist youths threw slates at the window of a pensioner on Duncairn Gardens.
PSNI Response
Source RN, RES
Date & time 3 August 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Pipe bomb attack on home
Summary A pipe bomb was found outside the Ligoniel Road home of a Catholic couple and their children, aged two and three.
The family were in the house when the device, which was said to have been ready to explode, was discovered. A controlled explosion was carried out by members of a British Army bomb disposal squad.
PSNI Response
Source NBN, RN, CW, IW, IN, PSNI
Date & time 5 August 2004
Area Ligoniel
Type of attack Intimidation
Summary Loyalists from Ballysillan threatened a Catholic man and his son as they walked their dogs.
PSNI Response
Source CW
Date & time 20 August 2004
Area Torrens
Type of attack Windows of home smashed
Summary On Friday 20 August, a Catholic man had the windows of his home smashed by a gang of loyalists.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES, NBN
Date & time 21 August 2004
Area Torrens
Type of attack Houses burnt down
Summary A NUMBER of houses vacated by Protestants in the Torrens Estate off the Oldpark Road in North Belfast were burned down on Saturday 21 August to prevent Catholic families from moving into them.
PSNI Response CW, RES, NBN
Source
Date & time 27 August 2004
Area Whitewell
Type of attack Assault by PSNI
Summary A Catholic man from the Old Throne Park area of Whitewell was arrested and charged with assault after he confronted the PSNI who stood by as loyalists attacked his home on Sunday 27 August.
The man returned home and saw the loyalists attacking his home with bricks and bottles, in full view of the PSNI.
The man went to the PSNI and asked them to put a stop to the sectarian attack but the PSNI turned on him and hit over the head with a baton and knocked him to the ground.
The man received two black eyes, a busted lip and serious bruising to his chest and wrists. He was also charged with disorderly behaviour and assaulting two members of the PSNI.
PSNI Response
Source NBN, RN, CW, RES
Date & time 28 August 2004
Area Torrens
Type of attack Windows of home smashed
Summary The home of a Catholic family living in Torrens Avenue was attacked by loyalists in full view of Oldpark PSNI Barracks.
The woman who lives in the house with her husband and three children, said that two loyalists armed with hockey sticks smashed in the window of her home in the early hours of Saturday morning 28 August.
A car on Torrens Drive was also attacked and had its windows broken, while a second house in Torrens Garden was also attacked.
PSNI Response
Source RES, NBN
Date & time 29 August 2004
Area Whitewell
Type of attack Mourners attacked at funeral by loyalists
Summary During the funeral procession for a Catholic woman from the Whitewell, a group of loyalists armed with machetes and baseball bats emerged from the Graymount Estate and shouted sectarian abuse and threatened mourners.
The funeral was leaving St Gerard’s Church on the Antrim Road on Saturday 28 August when the confrontation occurred.
PSNI Response
Source RES, CW, NBN, RN
Date & time 29 August 2004
Area Torrens
Type of attack Community Centre gets wrecked
Summary On Sunday 29 August, a loyalist gang wrecked the Torrens community centre.
PSNI Response The PSNI watched as a group of loyalists removed computer equipment from the centre before smashing it up.
Source RN, CW, RES
Date & time 29 August 2004
Area Whitewell
Type of attack Bandsmen attack nationalist residents
Summary Later that day, as a loyalist band parade made its way along the Shore Road on Saturday afternoon, bandsmen broke ranks with the parade and began attacking nationalist residents at the bottom of the Whitewell Road.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES
Date & time 30 August 2004 @ 11.30pm
Area New Lodge
Type of attack Loyalists storm flat
Summary A number of masked men shouting that they were from the LVF ransacked a flat in north Belfast.
PSNI Response
Source NBN, CW
Date & time 1 September 2004
Area Mill Road
Type of attack Memorial vandalised
Summary A plaque dedicated to a young Catholic man who was killed in a motorbike accident was vandalised by loyalists.
The sectarian attack happened on the Mill Road in Newtownabbey in the early hours of Wednesday 1 September.
PSNI Response
Source CW
Date & time 3 September 2004
Area Ardoyne
Type of attack UDA gang rams bar with burning digger
Summary A public house in Ardoyne was rammed with a digger by a UDA gang. In the early hours of Friday 3 September a loyalist gang repeatedly rammed The 32 Degrees North pub in Ardoyne with a telescopic digger and lobbed petrol bombs into the premises after they breached the front wall.
Around 20 customers escaped serious injury in the bar attack.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES, PSNI, RN, NBN
Date & time 5 September 2004
Area Floral Road
Type of attack Stabbing
Summary Loyalists were behind an attempt to kill a young man at Floral Road, at the top of the Whitewell Road, when they stabbed him in the stomach.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES, NBN, RN
Date & time 11 September 2004
Area
Type of attack PSNI attempt to recruit youth
Summary The teenager from North Belfast was involved in an incident last year in which a bus window was broken, but recently he says he has been harassed by the PSNI.
He was arrested and beaten by members of the PSNI on Saturday night 11 September and taken to Antrim Road PSNI Barracks, where he was told that all charges against him would be dropped in return for information.
PSNI Response
Source RN
Date & time 20 September 2004
Area Newington
Type of attack Man attacked
Summary A 39-year-old man was out at his gate around 11pm when he was hit by an unidentified object and suffered a large gash on his forehead. The attackers drove away in a silver car.
PSNI Response
Source RN, NBN
Date & time 12 October 2004
Area Old Mill Road
Type of attack Stabbing
Summary A 21-year-old nationalist man is in a stable condition in hospital after being stabbed in the stomach and arm in a sectarian attack by a group of loyalists as he walked through the Old Mill Road in Newtownabbey at around 1am on Tuesday 12 October.
A number of loyalists jumped from a car and attacked the man, who fought back but was stabbed once in the stomach and in the arm.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RN, NBN
Date & time 17 October 2004
Area Newington
Type of attack Loyalists attack homes
Summary At 3pm on Tuesday, a group of loyalists used derelict houses on Halliday's Road in Tigers Bay to gain access to the back roof of nationalist homes in Newington. They proceeded to smash residents' windows with hammers and cudgels. One house in particular had several windows smashed.
PSNI Response
Source RES, CW, NBN, RN
Date & time 17 October 2004
Area Crumlin Road
Type of attack Home attacked
Summary Two adults and four children were in the house when loyalists threw a brick and petrol bomb at the house just before 11pm on Sunday night.
A brick was hurled through the front window and a petrol bomb shattered an outside pane of the double glazed window before bouncing into the garden, where it caused scorch damage.
PSNI Response
Source RN, RES, CW, NBN
Date & time 7 November 2004 @ 2am
Area Westland Gardens
Type of attack PSNI attack with CS gas
Summary Nationalist residents who were out protecting their homes after a loyalist attack were then attacked by the PSNI who sprayed CS gas at them.
PSNI Response
Source RES, IW, CW, NBN, RN
Date & time 9 November 2004 @ 1.50am
Area Fortwilliam
Type of attack Racist attacks
Summary Unionist paramilitaries were behind a racist attack on three houses and two cars belonging to Filipino families living in Queen Victoria Gardens and Fortwilliam Parade in the Skegoniel area of North Belfast at around 1.50am on Tuesday 9 November. The homes and cars had Combat 18 logos, swastikas and racist slogans daubed on them.
PSNI Response
Source NBN, RN, CW, RES
Date & time November 2004
Area Baltic Avenue
Type of attack CS gas used on residents
Summary PSNI used CS gas to break up a small altercation on Baltic Avenue in North Belfast. Community workers were on hand to sort out the problem without using force but were told to move on by the PSNI.
PSNI Response
Source CW, RES, NBN, RN
Date & time 5 December 2004 @ 12.30 am
Area Fortwilliam
Type of attack Stabbing
Summary A teenager escaped with his life after a loyalist gang attacked him as he walked home along the Antrim Road, North Belfast, at around 12.30am on Sunday morning 5 December.
In the attack, the 18-year-old was beaten and stabbed and needed 40 staples to back and arm wounds
PSNI Response
Source RN, NBN, IN
Date & time 13 December 2004 @ 10.30 pm
Area Serpentine Road
Type of attack Assault
Summary A gang of loyalists attacked a 15-year-old girl as she walked home with her friend. They followed the girls for a while in a car and then jumped out and assaulted them with baseball bats.
PSNI Response
Source CW, NBN, IN, BBC, RN
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