Man beaten to death by group
Police said a young man was attacked in the early hours at the rear of a house at Leamount Park in the Cline Road area in Banbridge, Co Down, in Northern Ireland.
A number of people have been arrested. A group of three or four men and two women are believed to have carried out the attack on the 29-year-old, and may have used spades.
Police appealing for information said one of the women possibly had a Scottish accent.
The man died at the scene shortly after the 4.30am attack.
Ulster Unionist councillor Joan Baird said that people in the area were deeply shocked by the murder.
“This is unbelievable that people could go out and do this to other people,” she said.
“Animals would not do this to each other and really these people have to be caught and punished for what they have done.”
Meanwhile a man was arrested in west Belfast following a hammer attack which left another man critically ill.
He was detained after the attack at a house in Broadway Parade at around 4am.
The injured man was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital suffering from severe head injuries.
Police appealed for anyone with information or who witnessed the attack to contact them.
