‘No justification’ for British government to withhold files on boy killed in Derry

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There is “no justification” for the British government to withhold a file on a boy killed by a police plastic bullet in Derry in 1981, a former police ombudsman for Northern Ireland has said.

Paul Whitters, 15, died in hospital 10 days after being struck on the head by a baton round fired by a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officer after a day of disorder in Derry.