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DETECTIVES IN NORTHERN Ireland are trying to track down a man who attacked a woman with a hammer and tried to steal her handbag in the Lisburn Road area of south Belfast.
Shortly after 11pm last night, the woman was assaulted outside a restaurant.
He attempted to take her handbag but she refused to hand it over.
He struck her a number of times with the hammer on the arm before he made off empty handed along Lower Windsor Avenue.
A PSNI statement said that the woman “suffered bruising to her arm and was left badly shaken following the incident”.
They are now searching for the attacker. He is described as being around 5’6′ tall. He was wearing a grey hooded top, blue jeans and a dark coloured baseball cap.
Anyone who may have witnessed the incident, or has any other information, is urged to contact detectives at Musgrave Police Station in Belfast.
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Brave woman. Cowardly man.
5 years breaking stones would teach him that this is not a nice thing to do. I would give him a heavier hammer in all fairness. We are all to soft on this kind of low life…
@techman: I’d give him a hammer to his kneecaps. Far more likely to prevent recidivism than all the psychobabble he might get in jail.
It’s always best just to hand it over .. not worth risking your life for ..
Its an awful shame citizens here can’t carry tasers nor even pepper spray as they can in other countries where citizenry are not emasculated since 1972 by Irish governments terrified of what allowing them to arm themselves might lead to. A government afraid of its People rather than the other way around. Imagine bow that might help it to clean up its act not to mention allowing us to defend ourselves against non-political criminals too, including perhaps some of our own “guardians of the peace” if what Sgt McCabe says is true, and I for one believe him.
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