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| A Londonderry man has been badly beaten in front of his wife and seven-year-old son by a gang of eight youths. | A Londonderry man has been badly beaten in front of his wife and seven-year-old son by a gang of eight youths. |
| Aidan Boyle's ankle was broken in two places, his leg fractured and his eye injured in the attack at Lisnagelvin playing fields last Sunday. | |
| The 45-year-old said it was because he refused to be intimidated. | The 45-year-old said it was because he refused to be intimidated. |
| "When I was lying on the ground my wife was in hysterics. The child ran up the street and got this other neighbour to help," he said. | "When I was lying on the ground my wife was in hysterics. The child ran up the street and got this other neighbour to help," he said. |
| "He came down and it was him who got the ambulance. | |
| "They were still over shouting abuse and they threw bicycles at the ambulance." | "They were still over shouting abuse and they threw bicycles at the ambulance." |
| Mr Boyle said: "People have to take a stance and I'll be glad to take a stance and go through the courts and take a stance because it's the only way." | |
| A PSNI spokeswoman said officers in Derry were investigating an assault on a 45-year-old man in the Irish Street area of the city on Sunday 27 July. |
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