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Boylan requests meeting with PSNI after complaints of 'heavy handedness'

Published: 12 October, 2009

Sinn Féin MLA Cathal Boylan has called for a meeting with the PSNI in Armagh after receiving a number of complaints of 'heavy handedness by their officers during clashes on the

Friary Road

on Saturday night.

Mr. Boylan said,

"Sinn Féin has requested a meeting with the PSNI as some reports claim that police officers were heavy handed in some cases on Saturday night.

"We have also asked for a meeting with the hotel management in order to establish the exact causes of the trouble.

"There was in trouble in the hotel but we want to know how it led to so many people spilling out of the hotel and the subsequent police action.