A woman suffered a severed lip and had a tooth knocked out during an alleged outburst of violence involving a hammer and Stanley Knife in north Belfast, a court heard today.
Police said she was discovered bleeding heavily from a wound to the back of the head at flats in the New Lodge area.
Details emerged as two men were remanded in custody accused of involvement in the incident on March 5.
Kevin Taylor (24) of Hamill Grove in Andersonstown, faces a total of 10 charges, including aggravated burglary and attempting to inflict grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and criminal damage to a Volkswagen Polo.
Senior DUP party officers are to ask the Queen to strip paedophile ex-mayor Thomas Hogg of his MBE, Sunday Life can reveal.
A letter formally requesting Hogg that have his title removed will be sent once he is sentenced at Belfast Magistrates Court this week.
The 32-year-old was convicted at the same court last week on a single charge of inciting a boy under 16 years old to engage in sexual activity in September 2019.
Hogg sat as a DUP councillor on Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council and twice served as mayor.
He resigned from the council and the party after it was revealed he was facing child sex charges.
Scotch Brian McLean
The smuggling plot took place in 2017 during a jail visit by Sanders to Scotch Brian, who was on remand charged with the murder of rival loyalist Geordie Gilmore. He was later cleared of involvement.
A loyalist source said both cases prove the South East Antrim UDA, led by Gary Fisher, is nothing more than a crime gang. All South East Antrim cares about is making money from drug dealing and extortion, they added. Fisher and his mates let on they are big loyalists, but the truth of the matter is they are nothing more than gangsters.
Carrickfergus-based Chantelle Crozier led a group of lily-white female drug mules in the Co Antrim coastal town who delivered cocaine for the South East Antrim UDA.
A disgraced ex-DUP mayor faces being stripped of his MBE award after he was convicted of trying to get a boy aged under 16 to engage in sexual activity.
Former Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough councillor Thomas Hogg denied the offence but was found guilty following a contest hearing at Belfast Magistrates Court last week.
The case followed the 32-year-old s arrest at the dance music festival V36 in Newtownabbey.
Hogg, of Brae Hill Park in the Ballysillan area of north Belfast, was charged with inciting a 14-year-old boy to engage in sexual activity on September 28, 2019.
Following the charges brought against him, Hogg left the DUP and resigned his seat on Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council.
Victim: William ‘Pat’ McCormick’s body was dumped in a lough in Ballygowan
Asking for Dodds to be readmitted to bail, her solicitor said that her grandmother was willing to allow her to stay at her home in north Belfast and would provide a £750 cash surety.
He added this was the first breach of bail since it was granted by the High Court in July 2019.
District Judge George Conner agreed to release Dodds on bail and adjourned the case to Newtownards Magistrates Court on March 10.
Dodds and her partner, David Gill (28), are charged with the murder of Mr McCormick, while four men are accused of withholding information in the case.