PSNI close in on car theft gang

Thugs who threw a 16-month-old baby from a car and savagely beat his father when he tried to prevent them stealing a vehicle deserve to be locked up for a long time, police said today.

Chief Superintendent Ken Henning said officers were following a positive line of inquiry in the hunt for a gang who bit part of the victim’s ear off and beat him with wooden bats at a supermarket in Lisburn, Co Antrim in Northern Ireland.