Sinn Fein comment on attack on woman in Strabane

Strabane Sinn Fein Cllr Ivan Barr has expressed sympathy with the female victim of a frightening ordeal at Lower Main Street in which the male assailant held a knife to her throat.

Cllr Barr said,
“While the motivation for this despicable attack is still unclear, it appears unlikely at this stage that this attack was in anyway connected to the worrying increase in attacks on women of a sexual nature in the Strabane area in recent times.

However, regardless of the motivation this brutal attacker has left a young girl badly shaken and severely traumatised for life and if he has the sick mind to plan and carry out this attack in such a public place then he poses a continuing danger to women in general.