A Polish couple whose home was attacked by masked men in Newtownabbey on Wednesday have said they just want to live in peace.
The attack happened at about 20:30 BST, when up to five men smashed windows at the property with a hammer.Jacek Sikorski and Marta Kilan told BBC News NI they had been left shaken and had barely slept after what happened.Police said on that occasion their living room windows and a front door were broken, possibly with a paving stone.Police said they were treating the February incident as a hate crime.
In the latest incident, Ms Kilan said she initially believed the couple's cat had smashed an object before she came downstairs to find two men in her garden holding hammers."I didn't know what to do. I was shaking, I was crying.Ms Kilan said she watched back footage of the incident on home CCTV cameras and saw the men involved had been wearing balaclavas."They know we have a Ring doorbell because the first guy when he came in he just smashed it with the hammer," she said.
"We just moved here to have a better life. I don't think it's a better life to have - every half year - someone is coming and smashing your window." Referring to the latest attack, Police Servie of Northern Ireland Sgt Dickson said: "There is no place for hate and we take reports of this nature incredibly seriously.
"It is the responsibility of each and every one of us to ensure that we live in a society where diversity is respected,."
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