Police swoop on loyalist estate following crucifixion

Police have swooped on a loyalist estate on the outskirts of Belfast after a man was nailed to a fence in what looked like a crucifixion.

Police swooped on a loyalist estate on the outskirts of Belfast after a young Catholic man was “crucified” on a stile.

The operation took place in the Seymour Hill estate where Harry McCartan, from the nearby nationalist Poleglass Estate, was savagely beaten before being nailed to the stile early on Saturday morning.

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