Paint attacks 'more sinister than ethnic cleansing'

A vicious campaign of paint and petrol bomb attacks on Catholics living in an under-siege village in Northern Ireland is worse than ethnic cleansing, a top police officer claimed today.

Paint attacks 'more sinister than ethnic cleansing'

A vicious campaign of paint and petrol bomb attacks on Catholics living in an under-siege village in Northern Ireland is worse than ethnic cleansing, a top police officer claimed today.

Deputy Chief Constable Paul Leighton confirmed that helicopter surveillance was being used in a bid to identify the thugs preying on their neighbours in Ahoghill, Co Antrim.

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