A pensioner who tried to protect his property was left with blood pouring from his head after being battered with cudgels during an armed robbery in the North, police said today.

Relatives of six men murdered when loyalists sprayed a Northern Ireland bar with bullets have told MEPs that British security forces colluded in the atrocity.

The families of six men gunned down in a bar in the North as they watched a World Cup match are to take their case for justice to the European Parliament.