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Delivering her findings in Belfast on Tuesday, Mrs Justice Keegan found all 10 victims were “entirely innocent”; nine were shot by the British army and, in the case of the 10th, the “abject failure” to investigate at the time meant there was no evidence upon which to base a judgment. ‘Posed no threat’ In the vast, echoing hall of the International Convention Centre by the river Lagan, the coroner outlined what was known about the last moments of each of the victims. Edward Doherty, an “innocent man who posed no threat” and was simply making his way home...

They had carried them for the final time into the former Waterfront Hall building yesterday to hear the judge deliver her findings. Now designated a Nightingale venue for the courts service, one of its cavernous conference halls had been reassembled as a makeshift courtroom for the occasion. I deeply regret what the Ballymurphy families have had to go through. While I cannot change it, it renews my ambition to ensure that other families do not have to go through similar experiences in the future. My statement following today’s verdicthttps://t.co/Yzoy0HlTgX — Brandon Lewis (@BrandonLewis)...

They contend the deaths in the Ballymurphy area were never thoroughly investigated. One woman and nine men were killed in five separate incidents between August 9 and 11 involving the Army at a time of high tension following the controversial introduction of internment without trial. (top row, from left) Joseph Corr, Danny Teggart, Eddie Doherty, Father Hugh Mullan, Frank Quinn, Paddy McCarthy, (bottom row, from left) Joan Connolly, John McKerr, Noel Philips, John Laverty and Joseph Murphy died in shootings in Ballymurphy in 1971 (PA) Soldiers were greeted by disorder and violence as they mov...

By Press Association 2021 An area of Ballymurphy where parish priest Father Hugh Mullan and teenager Frank Quinn were fatally wounded (Ballymurphy families/PA) A mother of eight and a Catholic priest were among ten people fatally wounded in disputed shootings involving the army in the Ballymurphy area of west Belfast between August 9-11 1971. The scenes came at a chaotic time across Northern Ireland following the controversial decision to implement internment without trial in response to the start of the Troubles. Findings following fre...

Findings will be published later following fresh inquests into the fatal shooting of 10 people in disputed circumstances involving the Army in west Belfast 50 years ago. A mother of eight and a Catholic priest were among those who died in August 1971 in events which have become known locally as the Ballymurphy Massacre. It came during a turbulent period following the controversial introduction of internment without trial in Northern Ireland at the start of the Troubles. Violence erupted on August 9 when soldiers moved into republican strongholds to arrest IRA suspects. Original inquests into ...