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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has issued a public apology for the investigation surrounding the 1971 Ballymurphy Massacre in Belfast. The victims' families, however, have dismissed his apology noting that they had no notice of it and that Johnson apologized for the investigation as opposed to the ten deaths.
Johnson apologises to Ballymurphy families in House of Commons Relatives again critical of British prime minister for shortcomings in statement about 11 hours ago Updated: about 5 hours ago Victims of the Ballymurphy massacre, 1971: Joseph Corr, Daniel Teggart, Edward Doherty, Fr Hugh Mullan, Francis Quinn, Pat McCarthy, Joan Connolly, John James McKerr, Noel Phillips, John Laverty and Joseph Murphy. File photograph: Ballymurphy Massacre Committee/PA The British prime minister has made a public apology in the House of Commons to the families of the 10 people killed in the Ballymur...
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British Army found to have massacred unarmed civilians in Ballymurphy, Northern Ireland, in August 1971 A long-delayed inquest into the shooting deaths of 10 people in the Ballymurphy estate in Belfast, Northern Ireland has concluded that all were civilians, posed no threat to anyone, were unarmed and that nine of them were shot by the British Army. Coroner Mrs Justice Keegan could not definitively identify the origin of the bullet that shot the tenth person. The verdict was welcomed by relatives and supporters of those killed. John Teggart, whose father Daniel was among those shot dead, addr...
The sister of shooting victim John Laverty, who was 21 when he was shot dead by British soldiers at Ballymurphy, said it has taken 50 years for the truth to come out which she said "has destroyed their lives". A coroner found that nine of the 10 victims had been shot by British Army soldiers. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sent a letter to the victims' families, in which he expresses his personal sorrow for the "terrible hurt that has been caused" by the deaths. Relatives of some of the victims were speaking on the Late Late Show last night. Carmel Quinn said the verdict on her brot...