A Ballymena schoolgirl was walking along a street when she was dragged into a garage and allegedly raped and sexually assaulted by three males, a court heard today.
Details of the alleged sex attack which sparked three days of riots in the Northern Ireland town last month were revealed for the first time as a 14-year-old Romanian boy, who cannot be identified, applied for bail.
Ballymena Youth Court heard that while two of her alleged assailants were arrested within hours of the incident on June 7, a third suspect has fled back to Romania.
Both the defendant, and another 14-year-old, are on remand in custody charged with attempted rape.
It was hours after the pair first appeared in court on June 9 that serious rioting and public disorder erupted in Ballymena and Romanian families fled their homes on Clonavon Terrace.
Three nights of serious trouble saw houses attacked and cars burned with Police Service of Northern Ireland riot squads facing an angry mob hurling missiles, including petrol bombs, fireworks, masonry and bottles.
Giving evidence in the contested application today, Detective Constable Sinclair told the court the girl's grandmother contacted police that evening, to report that her granddaughter 'had been raped by three males in a garage in Harryville', an area close to the town centre.
When police attended and spoke to the schoolgirl, she told them she was walking along the street when 'three males grabbed her and took her to a garage down an alleyway'.
The police officer told the court that inside the garage, the girl saw two mattresses 'and she was put on one'.
He added that while two of the men tried to force the girl to perform sex acts on them, the third male who has since absconded 'raped her'.
DC Sinclair continued: 'She said that this went on for about 10 minutes but when they heard a male voice outside, the three ran off.'
At that stage, the complainant 'was able to leave the garage and get help' and based on the information provided by the teenager, police attended an address on Clonavon Terrace where the two 14-year-olds were arrested. The court heard they 'matched the description' given by the alleged victim.
DC Sinclair said the bail applicant 'denied any criminal activity' and then refused to answer police questions during his interviews.
Turning to bail objections, the investigator told District Judge Trevor Browne 'police have strong concerns that there's a risk he may leave the jurisdiction'.
'We believe that, given the significant public disorder that descended after the incident, there's a risk that if released, this defendant will leave the jurisdiction and we are not content that any conditions can be put in place to prevent that.'
Magica said
Jul 16 5:01 PM, 2025
Glad they got them. If they had bail, they would vanish back to Romania.
That poor girl 😞
Anonymous said
Jul 16 6:22 PM, 2025
Seems the Irish are leading the way when it comes to the immigrants and their molesting kids. I don’t condone violence being the solution to solve things but I’ve found I’m taking great delight in seeing these perverts getting their just deserts from the communities.
Red Okktober said
Jul 16 7:05 PM, 2025
Ballymena was always going to be a hotbed of racial tension due to the rapid rise of immigrants moving there (at a far quicker rate than anywhere else in NI).
3 out of 10 don't have English or Irish as their first language.
The town is irreversibly lost to immigration and will never be what it once was. What is happening there will eventually happen to the rest of the UK, but they are ahead of most places in terms of turning into an immigrant riddled shithole, so worth keeping an eye on Ballymena as a marker as to what the rest of us can expect.
Creative thread title btw Digger!
Syl said
Jul 16 7:44 PM, 2025
It's totally sickening and shameful the way the UK have allowed certain sections of immigrants to wipe out the rights of women and children, as if their animalistic perverted ways have priority over women and the children of this country.
Maybe if the people of Rochdale and surrounding towns had acting in the same way as the people of Ballymena, decades ago, the Pakistani grooming gangs would not have had the chance to invade countless towns and cities in England.
Fluffy said
Jul 16 10:41 PM, 2025
What separates Manosphere Brits inclined to r*pe and men who groom and attack in gangs, is the latter are more likely to be foreign. Also the stats show they attack younger women, like in this example where they attacked a vulnerable child. That being said I have just noted the predators were children themselves. It shows how little they must think of girls and the rhetoric about girls and women that have influenced them during childhood by males in their family.
My heart goes out to this girl. She must have been so scared when they dragged her away, well she would have been in fear for her life.
I just hope her loved ones and friends are there for her. She will need counselling and a lot of support to get through this ordeal.
-- Edited by Fluffy on Wednesday 16th of July 2025 10:46:54 PM
A Ballymena schoolgirl was walking along a street when she was dragged into a garage and allegedly raped and sexually assaulted by three males, a court heard today.
Details of the alleged sex attack which sparked three days of riots in the Northern Ireland town last month were revealed for the first time as a 14-year-old Romanian boy, who cannot be identified, applied for bail.
Ballymena Youth Court heard that while two of her alleged assailants were arrested within hours of the incident on June 7, a third suspect has fled back to Romania.
Both the defendant, and another 14-year-old, are on remand in custody charged with attempted rape.
It was hours after the pair first appeared in court on June 9 that serious rioting and public disorder erupted in Ballymena and Romanian families fled their homes on Clonavon Terrace.
Three nights of serious trouble saw houses attacked and cars burned with Police Service of Northern Ireland riot squads facing an angry mob hurling missiles, including petrol bombs, fireworks, masonry and bottles.
Giving evidence in the contested application today, Detective Constable Sinclair told the court the girl's grandmother contacted police that evening, to report that her granddaughter 'had been raped by three males in a garage in Harryville', an area close to the town centre.
When police attended and spoke to the schoolgirl, she told them she was walking along the street when 'three males grabbed her and took her to a garage down an alleyway'.
The police officer told the court that inside the garage, the girl saw two mattresses 'and she was put on one'.
He added that while two of the men tried to force the girl to perform sex acts on them, the third male who has since absconded 'raped her'.
DC Sinclair continued: 'She said that this went on for about 10 minutes but when they heard a male voice outside, the three ran off.'
At that stage, the complainant 'was able to leave the garage and get help' and based on the information provided by the teenager, police attended an address on Clonavon Terrace where the two 14-year-olds were arrested. The court heard they 'matched the description' given by the alleged victim.
DC Sinclair said the bail applicant 'denied any criminal activity' and then refused to answer police questions during his interviews.
Turning to bail objections, the investigator told District Judge Trevor Browne 'police have strong concerns that there's a risk he may leave the jurisdiction'.
'We believe that, given the significant public disorder that descended after the incident, there's a risk that if released, this defendant will leave the jurisdiction and we are not content that any conditions can be put in place to prevent that.'
That poor girl 😞
Seems the Irish are leading the way when it comes to the immigrants and their molesting kids. I don’t condone violence being the solution to solve things but I’ve found I’m taking great delight in seeing these perverts getting their just deserts from the communities.
Ballymena was always going to be a hotbed of racial tension due to the rapid rise of immigrants moving there (at a far quicker rate than anywhere else in NI).
3 out of 10 don't have English or Irish as their first language.
The town is irreversibly lost to immigration and will never be what it once was. What is happening there will eventually happen to the rest of the UK, but they are ahead of most places in terms of turning into an immigrant riddled shithole, so worth keeping an eye on Ballymena as a marker as to what the rest of us can expect.
Creative thread title btw Digger!
Maybe if the people of Rochdale and surrounding towns had acting in the same way as the people of Ballymena, decades ago, the Pakistani grooming gangs would not have had the chance to invade countless towns and cities in England.
What separates Manosphere Brits inclined to r*pe and men who groom and attack in gangs, is the latter are more likely to be foreign. Also the stats show they attack younger women, like in this example where they attacked a vulnerable child. That being said I have just noted the predators were children themselves. It shows how little they must think of girls and the rhetoric about girls and women that have influenced them during childhood by males in their family.
My heart goes out to this girl. She must have been so scared when they dragged her away, well she would have been in fear for her life.
I just hope her loved ones and friends are there for her. She will need counselling and a lot of support to get through this ordeal.
-- Edited by Fluffy on Wednesday 16th of July 2025 10:46:54 PM