Court told Claire McCleave was in the Woodvale Road area wearing a Union Jack bowler hat
A woman who alleged she was hit by a police baton round during Twelfth of July rioting in Belfast has lost a High Court battle for compensation.
Trouble flared after the July 12 march was prohibited from passing the neighbouring Ardoyne shop fronts. With crowds of up to 5,000 people at the scene, police came under attack from stones, bottles, cans and pieces of masonry. In evidence Ms McCleave stated that she was struck on the chest by something, looked down and picked up an object which her uncle informed her was a plastic baton round. A short time later she gave an interview to a television news crew and left the scene.
During cross-examination, however, she accepted the distance in her statement was incorrect, and being shocked at the scale of the disorder played in the footage, acknowledging it to be worse than she had thought. Her action alleged negligence, assault, battery, trespass to the person and breach of statutory duty by the police.
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