Policewoman critically ill after station attack

A POLICEWOMAN was critically ill last night after a man who sought refuge at the station where she was working bludgeoned her with a 5ft-long steel bar.

The mother of three was attacked in the police station at Lisburn, Co Antrim. The 31-year-old man, from Kildare, had got into the station some hours earlier by telling detectives he was in fear of his life.

After spending some time in the station he slipped through a security door into an office where the 54-year-old full-time reserve constable was on duty alone and lashed out, striking the woman officer repeatedly on the head with the heavy bar.