Loyalists crack man's skull

A man aged 33 years has been injured in a so-called "punishment attack" in Co Down. The man fled from his house on the loyalist Langley Road estate in Ballynahinch when eight men broke down the back door at 11 p.m. on Thursday. They caught him in a lane nearby and beat him with baseball bats and hammers, fracturing his skull and breaking bones in his hand.