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08/08/2002
Fresh appeal made for witnesses to Portrush beating
Police have made a fresh appeal for witnesses to the assault of a 20-year-old man in Portrush at the weekend.
The Belfast man is still seriously ill in hospital after a dispute outside Kelly's nightclub in the town in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Police want to speak to 16 people who were picked up outside the Thatch Bar, Broughshane, at around 8.30pm on Saturday and who travelled on a Young's of Larne bus to the complex.
The same group of people also returned by the same route and bus having left Bushmills Road at between 1.30am and 2am on Sunday.
Police believe there was a dispute between the victim and a number of other men involving a female inside Kelly's.
It is believed that he and his friends were then subjected to sectarian taunting, and a brief fight broke out as a result.
Security staff eventually broke up the fight and all parties were ejected. However, another fight took place in the car park in which the victim received injuries that left him critically injured.
Despite the fact that the car park was packed with people and buses, very few witnesses have come forward.
(MB)
The Belfast man is still seriously ill in hospital after a dispute outside Kelly's nightclub in the town in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Police want to speak to 16 people who were picked up outside the Thatch Bar, Broughshane, at around 8.30pm on Saturday and who travelled on a Young's of Larne bus to the complex.
The same group of people also returned by the same route and bus having left Bushmills Road at between 1.30am and 2am on Sunday.
Police believe there was a dispute between the victim and a number of other men involving a female inside Kelly's.
It is believed that he and his friends were then subjected to sectarian taunting, and a brief fight broke out as a result.
Security staff eventually broke up the fight and all parties were ejected. However, another fight took place in the car park in which the victim received injuries that left him critically injured.
Despite the fact that the car park was packed with people and buses, very few witnesses have come forward.
(MB)
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