An Indian family, who had told UTV they wanted to leave their home after being targeted in weekly racist attacks for five years, were the victim of another ordeal after their plea was aired.
Last week, the Kunjumon family told UTV they wanted to move out of their home in Victoria Park in the New Lodge area of north Belfast, after the patio doors of their house were damaged in yet another attack.
The property is regularly pelted with bottles, stones, eggs and even potatoes which are hurled by youths from the top of their shed.
Neighbour Anne Kearns witnessed a fresh attack on the house last Friday, hours after the family's plea was aired on UTV.
She rushed to help them but was assaulted and bruised.
"They bit my finger, punched and booted and kicked me on the back of the head", she told UTV.
"I got floored outside the Indian's house where my head got banged. They're just thugs, animals..."
The family have applied to move out under the SPED scheme which helps people who are being intimidated leave their homes, but they said the police will not issue the required certificate.
On Monday, the Area Commander Chief Inspector Ian Campbell said it was "unacceptable that people should be intimidated into leaving their home."
"We have been working tirelessly with the family to resolve this situation which I appreciate is extremely distressing for them."
"However, the onus is on all of us - police, political representatives and the community at large - to make sure that this family can live in peace in their own home."
Badly shaken by the repeated attacks on their home, Mr Kunjumon said he believes they are being targeted by racists.
He said: "They think that I am a foreigner. Some gang doesn't like to have a foreigner here or something like that. So they targeted my home and one by one they chase me out of it."
His wife, Lalamma Kujumon, has worked as a nurse for years in war torn countries, like Kuwait and Libya, but she said she has never felt more under threat then in north Belfast.
She is now afraid to walk to the Mater Hospital where she works and has insisted the family will move back to India once their two sons have graduated from University.
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