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Fri 12 Dec 2009Three arrested after elderly couple beaten in home in Longford
THREE MEN broke into the isolated rural home of an elderly couple by kicking the front door down before beating the retired pensioners, stabbing the 65-year-old man in the hand and using an electric shock Taser gun on him.
A firearm was also used to threaten the couple and they were told their fingers were about to be cut off during the violent attack in Co Longford in the early hours of yesterday morning.
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