Brothers Adrian and Alister Douglas sentenced over intimidating young Lurgan mother

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Brothers Adrian and Alister Douglas sentenced over intimidating young Lurgan mother
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Adrian and Alister Douglas have been sentenced after a 22-year-old woman was subjected to sectarian abuse in her home.

A 22-year-old mother, who was the victim of vile sectarian intimidation, has hit out at the sentence handed down to the brothers who left her fearing for her life in her own home.Former Sinn Fein minister apologises over Storey funeral during pandemicAdrian Douglas, who is 35 and from Carrick Drive in Lurgan, will serve half his 20-month sentence in jail and half on licence, after admitting intimidation in April last year.

Ordering Adrian Douglas to serve half his sentence in jail and half on licence, Judge Patrick Lynch KC told the 35-year-old his offences were so serious that “clearly the custody threshold has been passed” and irrespective of his family difficulties, he had to go to jail. Sentencing the brothers, the judge said he was satisfied their offences were aggravated by reason of religious hatred and warned that “sectarianism has bedevilled our community for centuries and it is a tragedy that atavistic hatreds still emerge … through the emotions of a defeat in a Scottish football match, fuelled by alcohol.”

The Lurgan brothers, from Carrick Drive and Charles Baron Gardens respectively, also admitted a charge of attempting to cause criminal damage to a front door belonging to Danielle Skelton on the same date. Judge Lynch told the court she had written a victim impact statement where she detailed how the incident had affected multiple aspect of her life including that “moving address was stressful enough” but even having moved home, she still feels “high levels of stress and anxiety and petrified to leave” her son at home.

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