Circumstances surrounding the death of Kevin McDaid

The Police Ombudsman, Dr Michael Maguire, has found no evidence to support concerns that police did not intervene to stop a sectarian attack in Coleraine in which a number of people were injured, one of whom died later in hospital.
Nor did he find evidence that police officers had earlier texted a number of Loyalists in an attempt to inflame tensions in the town.
The allegations relate to the death of Mr Kevin McDaid, who died after he was beaten in an attack in the Heights housing estate in Coleraine on 24th May 2009, the day of a Glasgow Rangers v Glasgow Celtic football match. A number of other people suffered serious injuries in the attack.
Nine men received prison sentences for offences relating to Mr McDaid’s death and the attack on others.