Exclusive: police recorded 101 shootings and beatings by paramilitary groups last year• He fired at my legs: ‘punishment attack victim still living in fearParamilitary-style “punishment” shootings and beatings gain surged again across Northern Ireland,with a 60% increase in such attacks over the past four years, according to the latest police figures obtained by the Guardian.
News of the rise in dissident republican and Ulster loyalist assaults on people within their respective communities came as the head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland revealed that some victims’ parents were drugging and getting their loved ones drunk before they were beaten or shot to offset the pain.
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Source: guardian.co.uk