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Sat 06 Jun 2007SF attacked after police trauma rulingThe DUP has rounded on Sinn Féin over republican criticism of a High Court ruling yesterday that many of the 5,500 police officers who suffered mental anguish arising from their service during the Troubles had the right to claim millions of pounds in compensation.The RUC was liable for damages from 1986 to 1994 because of systematic failures in the management of the force, Mr Justice Coghlin ruled in the High Court in Belfast.