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[LINK]A Waterside family who were forced out of their home earlier this week by loyalist paramilitaries have spoken for the first time about their terrifying ordeal.
The Simpson family had to leave their Rossdowney Park home last Sunday after it was attacked by a gang of eight men, some armed with hammers, who chanted ‘UDA’ as they smashed more than 12 windows in the house.
Gerry and Isobel Simpson had lived in the street for 21 years and said they are “heartbroken” to have to leave their home. Their son, Saul, also received a death threat to his place of work on Monday and he has had to give up his job as a result. Explaining what happened in the early hours of last Sunday morning, Mrs Simpson said three men attacked her son and some of his friends as they waited for a taxi outside the family home.
The Waterside woman said the gang then returned in greater numbers as the incident became more sinister. “They came back and there was about eight of them and they started chanting ‘UDA UDA ra ra ra.’ They had hammers and crowbars and they started hitting the door,” she explained.
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