By Conor Sharkey

A disabled Strabane woman who has been repeatedly targetted by vandals this week called on her attackers to leave her in peace.

Dolores McCauley (54) woke on Sunday morning to find that a substance had been over the roof and bonnet of her Nissan Micra which had been parked outside her Linkside Park home. In excess of a thousand pounds worth of damage was caused as a result.

It is the third time in recent months the mother of four has been targetted. Earlier this year, both Mrs McCauley's house and car were targetted, with windows being broken on both occasions.

Mrs McCauley, who spends her nights on an oxygen support machine, told the Strabane Chronicle on Monday that she now lived in fear for her life.

"All I want to know is who is doing this and why?

"I genuinely have no idea what I have done and I can say hand on heart that I wouldn't do anyone a bad turn. If I have offended or upset anyone, then come and talk to me because I am frightened about what is coming next," she said.

Meanwhile, Mrs McCauley revealed that she could lose her one link with the outside world, her car, following the latest incident.

"My car was given to me through the Disability Living Allowance and they could take it back off me because of the damage it has sustained. I don't know how I would cope if that happened," she said.

Mrs McCauley's eldest daughter Andrea said she had spoken to the Housing Executive about having her mother relocated.

"We worry constantly about her. Mum spends most evenings in the house on her own and while before we would have visited most nights, she has told us to stop calling in case our cars are targetted by these vandals too. What if she had gone out to challenge whoever carried out this latest attack? Would they have thrown the acid or paint stripper or whatever it was in her face? It's really scaring us and we have spoken to the Housing Executive about the situation.

But mum can't get up and down stairs and because my younger brother and sister still live at home, she needs three bedrooms, so there isn't much the Executive can do for us.

"We don't know what to do at the minute," she said.

Pleading to be left in peace, Mrs McCauley added: "Whoever is behind this, come and speak to me and we can try and sort it out. If its my dogs in the yard that are the problem, I will have them removed.

"I will do anything to get this knocked on the head, but I need to know what the problem is first," she said.