Youths blamed over man’s death
Owen Murphy, 73, was found dead with a gash in the back of his head in an alleyway behind his home in Fort Street in the Springfield area of West Belfast.
Police were treating the death as suspicious but said they could not confirm what happened until a post mortem examination was carried out. One neighbour, who did not want to be named, said people living in the street were ‘tortured’ by young children and teenagers drinking and throwing bottles over their walls.
