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Ballymurphy Inquest: 'A cry of horror I'll never forget'

BBC News
By Will Leitch
image captionFamilies of those killed in have campaigned for justice
A inquest has found that 10 people who were shot over a three-day period in Ballymurphy, west Belfast, in 1971, were entirely innocent
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Coroner Mrs Justice Keegan said nine of the victims were shot by the Army, could not definitively say who shot the tenth.
The victims included a priest trying to help the wounded and a mother of eight.
Mrs Justice Keegan, who delivered her findings over the course of more than two hours, said the deaths took place during Northern Ireland s Troubles in a highly charged and difficult environment . ....

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Ballymurphy Inquest: A 20-year campaign for recognition and justice

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Alice Harper (née Teggart) at her home in west Belfast with a picture of her father Daniel Teggart. Picture by Hugh Russell
FOR some families it was a flyer they can t even remember picking up, for others a newspaper advert in The Irish News or Andersonstown News or a poster in a shop window.
The year was 1998 and there was to be a conference organised by campaign group Relatives For Justice (RFJ) about forgotten victims at St Mary s teacher training college on Belfast s Falls Road.
It was during the festival, Janet Donnelly remembers now.
I had already been torturing my husband for a couple of years to try and get my daddy s [Joseph Murphy] inquest papers for me, then I heard about the event in St Mary s called `The Forgotten Victims . ....

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Ten shot dead in Ballymurphy massacre entirely innocent, coroner finds

Ten shot dead in Ballymurphy massacre entirely innocent, coroner finds
Family of victims express joy and relief at verdicts of inquests into 1971 killings
Tue, May 11, 2021, 08:23
Updated: Tue, May 11, 2021, 18:52
A judge-led inquiry has found that British soldiers unjustifiably shot or used disproportionate force in the deaths of nine of the 10 innocent people killed in an 1971 incident in Ballymurphy Belfast. Video: Reuters
Families celebrate outside the International Convention Centre in Belfast after a coroner ruled those shot dead in Ballymurphy in 1971 were ‘entirely innocent’. Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Ten people shot dead in Ballymurphy, west Belfast, in 1971 were “all entirely innocent of any wrongdoing on the day in question”, a coroner has found. ....

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Lethal force at 'Ballymurphy massacre' was NOT justified

9 of the 10 shootings were attributed to the British Army, the inquest found
Coronor Mrs Siobhan Keegan scrutinised five separate incidents during hearing
First was shooting of parish priest Father Hugh Mullan, 38, and Frank Quinn, 19
In the second incident Noel Philips, 19, Joseph Murphy, 41, Joan Connolly, 44, and Daniel Teggart, 44, were fatally wounded by gunfire
In the third, Eddie Doherty, 31, died as he came across soldiers and protesters ....

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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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