Updated: New York, Jun 21 07:04 Crime Is Belfast Peace Dividend as Knee-Capping Ends (Update1) By Colm Heatley June 20 (Bloomberg) -- Geraldine McAteer can still hear the cheers of the gang that beat her brother to death yards from her home in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. Harry Holland, a 65-year-old greengrocer, was killed last September when his attackers rammed a screwdriver into his head and left him for dead. ``By the time I got to him he was in a bad way, blood was everywhere, but even then I didn't think he was dying,'' McAteer says. ``I didn't think that would happen here in West Belfast, in our own street.'' Peace has brought an unwanted dividend to West Belfast: crime. Holland's murder fueled concerns that robbery, mugging and vandalism are on the rise since the Irish Republican Army gave up its guns and ended...
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