Belfast woman Jemma McGrath talks to @StephenNolan about the night masked men shot her nine times five years ago

Nov 05, 2018, 10:13 AM

In September 2013, as Jemma McGrath was returning to her Belfast home late one night, the care worker was approached by masked men. They shot her nine times - five times in one leg, once in the other, twice in one arm and once in the stomach. It took 12 hours of surgery - one of the longest operations ever carried out in the Royal Victoria Hospital - to save her life but she still has one of the bullets lodged in her stomach. No one has ever been convicted of the shooting and Jemma still doesn't know why she was targeted. Police and politicians believe it was likely that loyalist paramilitaries were to blame. Five years on Jemma has made a full recovery, set up a successful business and won a Prince's Trust Award. Stephen asked her what she'd been doing before the shooting happened.