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Last Updated: Monday, 19 September 2005, 10:29 GMT 11:29 UK
UVF 'behind petrol bomb attack'
Ann Robb
Ann Robb blames the UVF for the petrol bomb attack on her home
The mother of a teenager murdered by the UVF five years ago has blamed loyalist paramilitaries for a petrol bomb attack on her home in Portadown.

Ann Robb said her family had been subjected to UVF harassment since her son Andrew, 19, was killed.

Mrs Robb and her husband escaped injury when two devices were thrown at the house in Festival Road in the Killycomaine estate at about midnight.

One bomb damaged a utility room, while the other hit a garage door.

Mrs Robb described the attackers as "scum".

"Andrew wasn't involved with paramilitaries or with drugs, I am not involved with paramilitaries or with drugs," she said.

"None of my family are, but the UVF keep insisting, they are trying to get me out of my house and I am not going."

Police have appealed for anyone with information concerning the petrol bomb attack to contact them.

Andrew Robb and his friend David McIwaine, 18, were found dead on an isolated country road in County Armagh in February 2000.

The murders were carried out during a loyalist paramilitary feud in the Portadown area.

However, police and both families said neither of the young men had any connection with a paramilitary organisation.




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