Update: Teebane widow is 'lost for words' after vandals attack memorial
Cookstown woman Jean Caldwell said she is struggling to understand why the granite memorial on the Omagh Road is regularly singled out for attack.
“What kind of kick do they get out of it?”, said asked.
“What kind of people want to keep doing this?”
In the latest attack paint was thrown over the memorial.
Just a few weeks ago wreaths and flowers placed at the site during the annual commemoration service were destroyed.
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Hide Ad“I was sick when I saw it today,” said Jean about the paint attack. “The people who do this must have no conscience. They can’t be decent people.”
Jean’s husband, Cecil, was one of eight workmen blown up by the IRA while on their way home in a minibus from an Army base in Omagh on the evening of January 17 1992.
The Teebane memorial has been targeted on eight occasions over the years.