{"id":59034,"date":"2018-09-19T00:45:02","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/09\/19\/shot-by-my-neighbour-review-a-bold-investigation-into-bloody-punishment-in-northern-ireland\/"},"modified":"2018-09-19T00:45:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T22:45:02","slug":"shot-by-my-neighbour-review-a-bold-investigation-into-bloody-punishment-in-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=59034","title":{"rendered":"Shot By My Neighbour review \u2013 a bold investigation into bloody punishment in Northern Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The seasoned presenter is on arresting form as she meets victims, perpetrators and those trying to stop the decades old practice of kneecappingNorthern Irish teenager John left home one evening knowing he would be shot, so he changed into his tracksuit bottoms first. \u201cMe mummy was, like: \u2018Where are you going?\u2019 and I said just to a bar for a pint.\u201d He had been summoned by the local paramilitary group for \u201cpunishment\u201d for his antisocial behaviour in the local area \u2013 otherwise known as a kneecapping. \u201cI hope you\u2019re not going to pull a dirty one and shoot me with a bigger gun,\u201d he said to the man who was about to shoot him. \u201cI\u2019ll look after you,\u201d the man assured him, and pulled the trigger. \u201cDid it hurt?\u201d he asked. \u201cOf course it did,\u201d said John. \u201cJust get on with the other one.\u201d So he did.John is not his real name and he was voiced by an actor, but everything else about his story as it was told in Tuesday night\u2019s Stacey Dooley Investigates: Shot By My Neighbour (BBC One), was real, and her documentary made manifest the details you might have \u2013 gladly \u2013 skipped over in a news report. You may know that such punishment attacks still abound in parts of Northern Ireland, for example. But you probably didn\u2019t know that they are most often carried out on boys old enough to cause trouble, but still young enough to say \u201cmummy\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2018\/sep\/18\/shot-by-my-neighbour-review-a-bold-investigation-into-bloody-punishment-in-northern-ireland\" target=\"_blank\">Shot By My Neighbour review \u2013 a bold investigation into bloody punishment in Northern Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The seasoned presenter is on arresting form as she meets victims, perpetrators and those trying to stop the decades old practice of kneecappingNorthern Irish teenager John left home one evening knowing he would be shot, so he changed into his tracksuit bottoms first. \u201cMe mummy was, like: \u2018Where are you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}