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Derry: Women are scared after recent attacks, councillor says

“Women are feeling the strain,” the former mayor of Derry and Strabane said.

“They are feeling, what more can we do to protect ourselves because there is nothing more that we can do.

“A lot of the women I am talking to, they’re arranging self-defence classes. There are free classes being run right across the city.”

On Friday night a woman was assaulted at knifepoint in Drumahoe, while on Saturday afternoon a woman walking her dog in Top of the Hill was approached by a man holding a kitchen knife.

The weekend attacks both happened in parks in the Waterside area and the incidents were about 2.5 miles apart.

Duffy said the current situation was “unacceptable”.

“We now need men to stand and be our allies in relation to these attacks because women are feeling afraid,” she added.


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