LATEST: Wife of Cookstown road rage victim speaks about ‘terrifying incident’

The distressed wife of a man who was the victim of a ‘sustained attack’ during a road rage incident in Cookstown has spoken of how she and their two children had to witness the ‘traumatic incident.’

The incident occured shortly before 4.35pm at Orritor Street in the town, when police were called to the scene by emergency services.

The Co. Derry woman who did not wish to be identified, told the MAIL how she desperately tried to stop the man from ‘repeatedly’ punching her husband in the head, which caused him to take an epileptic seizure.

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She told the MAIL how the driver of a black Audi A4, got out of his vehicle and approached her husband, who is a foreign national, calling him a ‘foreign b*****d’ before punching him in the head.

She said: “He hit him so hard the first time he stumbled across the road, it was quite a knock to the head. I was pleading with the man, trying to push him away but he kept coming. He came at him again and started punching him repeatedly on the head, over a car. My husband had fallen over a parked car. It was several blows to the head. He kept pushing me away as a I tried to get to my husband, but he wasn’t looking at me, he had his eyes fixed on my husband.

“Our two children were in the back of the car in hysterics witnessing all of this happen and I told the man this but he ignored me.”

The alleged assailant, who had left the scene prior to the arrival of the emergency services, is described as around 6’ 1” tall, well built with short, dark flat hair. He was wearing hi-vis trousers and a black fleece.

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The Audi is believed to have a possible partial registration of KHZ

Police are keen to hear from witnesses or anyone who can help identify the Audi driver. The investigating officer, Constable Cunningham, can be contacted at Cookstown police station via the non-emergency number 101.

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