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Innocent victims of Ballymurphy killings vindicated by coroner s findings

– Francis Quinn The men were shot in an area of open ground behind Springfield Park. Mrs Justice Keegan said that the two men had entered a field to assist an injured man and added that neither was injured or in the vicinity of anyone with a gun. She said: “I find on the balance of probabilities that both deceased men were shot by the British Army.” Relatives of Father Hugh Mullan (Rebecca Black/PA) She said that the force used was not justified. She said the state had failed to demonstrate that its use of force had been justified. The coroner also rejected a suggestion from the Ministry of Defence that the men may have been shot by a UVF sniper from the nearby Springmartin area.

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Ballymurphy Massacre: Victims were innocent and killed without justification

Share this article Ten people shot dead in Ballymurphy, west Belfast in 1971 were entirely innocent and killed without justification, an inquest has found. The nine men and one woman were killed over three days, shortly after the British Government introduced internment without trial in the North. This afternoon, Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan said the British Army was responsible for nine of the killings during the event, known as the Ballymurphy Massacre. She exonerated all ten of any wrongdoing and said found that there had been a disproportionate use of force by the British Army. She said the killings were in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights - the right to life protected by law.

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Ten killed in west Belfast in 1971 were entirely innocent – coroner | Richmond and Twickenham Times

Ten people killed in west Belfast 50 years ago in disputed shootings involving British soldiers were “entirely innocent”, a coroner has ruled. The Army has been found to be responsible for nine of the 10 deaths in August 1971, which included a mother-of-eight and a Catholic priest. Presiding Coroner Mrs Justice Keegan said there was not enough evidence for her to determine where the shot that killed the 10th victim, John McKerr, came from, but branded it “shocking” that there was no adequate investigation of the killing afterwards. The coroner acknowledged it was a chaotic time in Northern Ireland but ruled that the use of force by soldiers had been “disproportionate” in the nine deaths the Army was found as responsible for.

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Ballymurphy families welcome entirely innocent findings by coroner | Darlington and Stockton Times

Relatives of 10 people killed in west Belfast in shootings involving British soldiers 50 years ago have welcomed a ruling that their loved ones were “entirely innocent”. There were jubilant scenes outside Belfast Coroner’s Court as the families of those shot in Ballymurphy in August 1971 emerged to cheers from supporters. John Teggart, whose father Danny was among those killed, welcomed the “historic verdict”. “After 50 years they have finally had their names cleared,” he said. The daughter of Joseph Corr, another of those killed, said the inquest verdict had gone further than she had hoped. Eileen McKeown said: “I was expecting them just to say they were innocent.

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Ballymurphy inquest: 10 innocent people killed without justification, coroner finds

Ballymurphy inquest: 10 innocent people killed without justification, coroner finds
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