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BBC News By Will Leitch image captionFamilies of those killed in have campaigned for justice A inquest has found that 10 people who were shot over a three-day period in Ballymurphy, west Belfast, in 1971, were "entirely innocent" . Coroner Mrs Justice Keegan said nine of the victims were shot by the Army, could not definitively say who shot the tenth. The victims included a priest trying to help the wounded and a mother of eight. Mrs Justice Keegan, who delivered her findings over the course of more than two hours, said the deaths took place during Northern Ireland's Troubles in a "highly cha...

The words of Carmel Quinn, who has waited almost half a century for this day. Carmel's 20-year-old brother John Laverty, one of a family of 12 children, was one of them. Carmel Quinn On 10 August, he carried his eight-year-old sister to their local community centre to catch a bus evacuating women and children to Kildare army base, telling her he would see her again in a few days' time. She never spoke to him again. The day after she was taken to safety, John died after being shot in the back. There was chaos and mayhem in many nationalist areas of Northern Ireland at the time following the in...

Related stories Alice Harper (née Teggart) at her home in west Belfast with a picture of her father Daniel Teggart. Picture by Hugh Russell FOR some families it was a flyer they can't even remember picking up, for others a newspaper advert in The Irish News or Andersonstown News or a poster in a shop window. The year was 1998 and there was to be a conference organised by campaign group Relatives For Justice (RFJ) about forgotten victims at St Mary's teacher training college on Belfast's Falls Road. "It was during the festival," Janet Donnelly remembers now. "I had already been to...

A coroner has concluded that all of the ten people who were shot and killed in Ballymurphy in west Belfast almost 50 years ago were "entirely innocent" and that their deaths were unjustified. Mrs Justice Siobhan Keegan delivered her findings in relation to the deaths of the ten victims over the course of more than two-and-a-half hours today. Family members of the victims applauded after the coroner read out her verdicts in relation to each of the ten victims. The findings were delivered at the International Convention Centre at the Waterfront in Belfast. Mrs Justice Keegan said this has been ...

Ten shot dead in Ballymurphy massacre entirely innocent, coroner finds Family of victims express joy and relief at verdicts of inquests into 1971 killings Tue, May 11, 2021, 08:23 Updated: Tue, May 11, 2021, 18:52 A judge-led inquiry has found that British soldiers unjustifiably shot or used disproportionate force in the deaths of nine of the 10 innocent people killed in an 1971 incident in Ballymurphy Belfast. Video: Reuters Families celebrate outside the International Convention Centre in Belfast after a coroner ruled those shot dead in Ballymurphy in 1971 were ‘entirely innocent...