Woman in 90s suffers raid ordeal

The woman was attacked in her east Belfast home

It has emerged that a woman in her 90s who suffered shock after a gang of men ransacked her home in east Belfast has now been robbed three times.

The victim woke on Wednesday night to find up to four men in the house in the Willowholme area.

The woman was held in her bed as the gang searched her house. It is not clear if anything was taken.

Meanwhile, in Coalisland a 38-year-old man was stabbed in the leg and his mother injured during a robbery.

Two masked men broke into their house at Ballynakilly Road early on Thursday.

They held a knife to the throat of the man's 65-year-old mother, who needed treatment for a cut to the neck, before escaping with cash.

On Wednesday night in Londonderry a woman in her 70s had her handbag stolen by two men.

She was walking on the Aileach Road when the robbery happened. She was not injured.

On Tuesday, three homes belonging to pensioners were robbed. The incidents happened in Lurgan, Lisburn and Tandragee.

Five men robbed a 92-year-old woman in her house at Bellevue Park in Lisburn at about 2100 GMT on Tuesday. The woman was shocked but uninjured.

In Tandragee, DUP councillor Heather Black, 78, had her face cut in a raid at her home on the Portadown Road.

Meanwhile, an elderly couple were left shocked after a robbery at their home in Lurgan at about 1945 GMT.