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Catholic victims of 1971 Northern Ireland massacre 'entirely innocent' Coroner rules that the deaths of a priest and nine lay Catholics shot dead by British troops were unjustified Updated: May 12, 2021 05:17 AM GMT Trending Rita Bonner holds up a picture of her brother John Laverty as she arrives for the verdict at the Ballymurphy Massacre inquest at Waterfront Hall in Belfast on May 11. (Photo: Paul Faith/AFP) A coroner in Northern Ireland has ruled that a priest and nine lay Catholics who were shot dead by British troops almost 50 years ago were "entirely innocent" and their deaths were...

Last modified on Wed 12 May 2021 06.25 EDT There are growing calls for the British government to apologise to the families of 10 people killed in Ballymurphy during a British army operation in 1971 after an inquest found the use of force was unjustified and that the dead were innocent. Naomi Long, the Alliance party leader and Northern Ireland’s justice minister, led calls for Boris Johnson to make an unreserved, formal apology for the killings by soldiers in the Catholic west Belfast neighbourhood during the Troubles. It also emerged on Wednesday that some of the families of those killed a...

BBC News Published media captionA priest and a mother of eight were among the 10 people killed at Ballymurphy More legal action is expected over the deaths of 10 people killed in the Ballymurphy shootings of August 1971. Solicitor Paddy Murray, who represents nine of the 10 families, said further legal action is being planned. "One of those avenues is civil proceedings against the Ministry of Defence and in parallel with the inquest the families initiated those proceedings," he told BBC Radio Foyle. "They were stalled pending the outcome of these findings. Given the very critical commentary b...

Deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill said that what families need now is justice.

John Teggart described as an ‘insult to families’ that Boris Johnson is said to have apologised in a call with Arlene Foster and Michelle…