Opinion

Disgraceful attack in Derry's Bogside

The incident in which a 17-year-old boy was shot by a masked gang at his home in Derry, and his mother was also assaulted, was nothing short of disgraceful.

Dissident republicans have been blamed for the attack, which was also witnessed by the victim's 16-year-old girlfriend, in Gartan Square in the Bogside area on Wednesday night.

However, it does not really matter which group was responsible for the outrage or what form of justification may eventually be put forward.

It represented child abuse, in a most basic and unacceptable form, and the police deserve to be provided with the information which will help them put the perpetrators behind bars.