Victims fight move to use new plastic bullets

Relatives of plastic bullet victims in Northern Ireland are to launch a legal challenge to the introduction of a new version of the weapon, it emerged today.

Victims fight move to use new plastic bullets

Relatives of plastic bullet victims in Northern Ireland are to launch a legal challenge to the introduction of a new version of the weapon, it emerged today.

A High Court application will be lodged in the name Jim McCabe, whose wife Nora was killed by a plastic bullet at the height of the hunger strikes in July 1981, seeking a judicial review into the use of the baton rounds.

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