11/11/2018

'Decades of deceit': Ballymurphy killings inquest opens in Belfast

'Decades of deceit': Ballymurphy killings inquest opens in Belfast | UK news | The Guardian:
A plaque.

 “It’s something we’ve been campaigning for for 47 years,” said John Teggart, whose father, Daniel Teggart, was among those killed. “It’s a step closer to the truth. My daddy was a good, loving, family man. He was labelled a terrorist and a gunman. That was a stigma that the family had to endure.”
The dead included Joan Connolly, a mother of eight shot in the face, and Father Hugh Mullan, a Catholic priest shot while giving the last rites to a wounded man. An eleventh person died days later of a heart attack, allegedly after a mock execution by soldiers.

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