The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee heard evidence on the effects of paramilitarism on society as they held an evidence session at Stormont.
PARAMILITARIES IMPRISONED FOR domestic crimes in the North are using their associates to continue to stalk and intimidate former partners while they are in jail, MPs have been told.
“Sometimes there were cases of paramilitaries using the coercive control they had over their ‘own community’, to control the women in that community and to keep them in line,” she said. “And they would have people follow them home from the pub or sit outside their workplace or sit outside the home and sometimes the person isn’t totally sure whether the person – their abuser – is what they say ‘connected’, or pretending to be connected, because that can also carry a degree of cachet.
“We had one woman where cameras were actually installed in the neighbour’s across the road, so they could see them at all times,” she said.
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