Woman dies after fleeing Loyalists
An elderly Catholic woman has died of a heart attack in Belfast after she was forced from her home by Loyalists.
The woman, who was confined to a wheelchair, lived in a mainly Protestant estate in Lisburn for the past 20 years with her brother and her two sons, one of who is mentally and physically disabled.
The family had been the victims of sectarian hatred for over a month and yesterday a gang of Loyalists came to their house and ordered them to leave within 24 hours and they also took money and benefit books.
The family moved in with relatives who lived in the Ardoyne area to stay overnight but the woman died of a heart attack at about 3am this morning.
Sinn Fein say that they will be raising this and other Loyalist attacks as examples of Loyalist intimidation in the talks that are being held in the British midlands today.
