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Bureaucrats are stalling on compo for OAP victim of the slasher nurse because they can't understand why he has a stiff neck...
A pensioner who had his throat cut wide open by a slasher nurse has seen his claim for compensation stall because civil servants can't understand why he has a STIFF NECK.
Former RAF man Arthur McMaster needed more than 50 staples in his neck wound after his evil daughter-in-law, Jacqueline McMaster, cut his throat in a gruesome hammer and knife attack at his east Belfast home
The 68-year-old was left to die in a pool of his own blood after the vicious attack, but was saved by the quick response of a police patrol.
Since coming through the horrific ordeal he has developed a nervous shake that means he can no longer perform daily tasks around his home - and can barely lift a glass of water.
He has also lost most of the movement in his neck due to the nerves being severed in the frenzied knife attack.
And he is no longer able to sleep at night because of terrifying flashbacks.
But more than two-and-a-half years later, Mr McMaster is STILL WAITING for the Compensation Agency to deal with his case.
The NIO-backed body boasted in its most recent annual report that it issues decisions to its applicants "in an average of 18 weeks".
But it has been a whopping 131 weeks since Mr McMaster's evil daughter-in-law battered him with a hammer and sliced his throat open.
And although he lodged his application with the Compensation Agency four months after the attack, that still amounts to more than 100 weeks longer than the average case.
The frustrated pensioner told Sunday Life how he felt he was being "fobbed off" when he contacted the agency to be told they could not see why he had a stiff neck!
"They (Compensation Agency) know all about what happened to me," he explained.
"It was a doctor who told them why my neck was stiff, it was in the doctor's report, if it needed explaining.
"My neck was cut right round - you can still see the scars - and all the nerves were severed.
"Hearing them say that felt like it was just the latest excuse, after being pushed from one person to the next person to another person.
"At first they told me they couldn't do anything until she (his daughter-in-law) was convicted.
"But what difference does that make to what I have gone through, or how does it change the injuries I have suffered and the scars on my neck?
"And what happens to all those cases where no one is caught? The victims of those crimes are compensated."
Mr McMaster added: "Maybe, if I inflicted the injuries myself, they would do more to help me, but it feels like if you are a victim then they do not want to know about you."
Sunday Life raised Mr McMaster's case with the Northern Ireland Office last week.
An NIO spokeswoman declined to comment.
However, she promised that if Mr McMaster contacts the agency this week he will get answers on his case directly from its top man.
"If Mr McMaster requires further information he can contact the chief executive of the Compensation Agency directly and he will talk to him in more detail about his case," she said.
'Hells' Angel drops unfair dismissal claim after exposé
The slasher nurse who launched a ludicrous compensation claim against the hospital that sacked her has withdrawn the case.
Last week we exclusively revealed how deluded Jacqueline McMaster (left) was planning to sue the Royal Group of Hospitals after she was sacked following her cutthroat attack.
McMaster, currently serving five years, withdrew her absurd wrongful dismissal claim after we revealed details of the case.
Last night her victim spoke of his relief she'd dropped the case.
Said Arthur McMaster: "I was stunned at her brazen attempt to claim compensation. The more I thought about it the angrier I got. I'd decided that if she was going ahead with that claim, I would launch my own civil action against her, to get whatever money she might have been awarded back off her and donate it to a much more deserving cause, such as the RVH's Hospital for Sick Children.
"That way, the hospital would get its money back and she would have made no money out of what she did to me."
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