Calls for UK apology after coroner finds Ballymurphy victims ‘entirely innocent’

Calls for UK apology after coroner finds Ballymurphy victims ‘entirely innocent’

Briege Voyle, daughter of Ballymurphy victim Joan Connolly (Liam McBurney/PA)

Calls are growing for the UK Government to issue an apology to the families of 10 civilians killed in west Belfast in 1971.

Fresh inquests into the deaths involving the Army concluded that the victims were “entirely innocent” and soldiers were responsible for nine of the fatal shootings.

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