ON Easter Sunday around 9.30pm my 24-year-old son was brutally and viciously attacked on the corner of Lyddersdale Avenue and Lakewood.

He was walking home from a friends when he was hit on the head from behind

As he dropped to the floor he was repeatedly kicked in the head and body.

He managed to drag himself into a nearby garden but this didn't stop his attackers.

Luckily his shouting disturbed the family of the house who came to his rescue. His low life assailants ran off.

The family very kindly put him in their car and brought him home.

His attackers had no intention of stopping so I would like to say a big thank you to this family and also to neighbours who gave a statement to the police.

My son is a hard working student at university and his only crime was walking down a street. Let me also draw your attention to gangs of teenagers who hang around the Lidl store just down the road from where this happened.

I believe there have been complaints about them.

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