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Ballymurphy Massacre: Families receive 'significant damages' in court case against UK government

Ten people, including a mother of eight and a Catholic priest, were killed in the British Army shootings.

CIVIL CASES BROUGHT by the families of nine people killed at Ballymurphy in Belfast in 1971 against the UK’s Ministry of Defence have been settled.

At the High Court in Belfast Mr Justice Humphreys said that the settlement represented the “end of a very long process” for the families.

The amounts paid out in each case were not disclosed in court but the judge ordered the MoD to pay legal costs.

A statement from the families said they had secured “significant payment in damages” to the families of Fr Hugh Mullan, Frank Quinn, Joan Connolly, Noel Phillips, Joseph Murphy, Daniel Teggart, Edward Doherty, Joseph Corr and John Laverty.

Ten people, including a mother of eight and a Catholic priest, were killed the British Army shootings in an event that is known as the Ballymurphy Massacre

Last year, a fresh inquest concluded that 10 people had been killed by the British Army and that they were all innocent victims.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson issued an apology to the families in the House of Commons for the series of shootings over three days which came in the wake of the introduction of internment in Northern Ireland.

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    Mute honey badger
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    Oct 28th 2023, 1:07 PM

    I remember seeing some goth specimen bouncing down grafton Street with those contacts in. He was staring wide eyed at everyone. Probably thought he was a vampire or some nonsense. The bleedin’ dzope…

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    Oct 28th 2023, 1:38 PM

    @honey badger: Probably a Ukrainian.

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    Oct 28th 2023, 1:56 PM

    Possibly a Ukrainian thats true. But you are 100% a racist.

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    Oct 28th 2023, 2:08 PM

    @Noel Byrne: your 2nd line is 100% false. Very offensive I’m telling on you

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    Oct 28th 2023, 4:29 PM

    @Noel Byrne: Nah a Ukrainian would be wearing expensive glasses courtesy of the taxpayer.

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    Oct 28th 2023, 4:48 PM

    @: state provided glasses aren’t expensive.

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    Oct 28th 2023, 4:59 PM

    @: Bigotry used to have some sort of warped logic. It was ignorant BS but there was some sort of decipherable train of thought where you could see how the simpletons arrived from A-B in their own warped way. You guys don’t even try anymore! This is lazy beyond belief! Yeah those erm… contact lense wearing Ukrainians! Me so angry at people from other place!

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    Oct 28th 2023, 12:57 PM

    They can be frightening, but for all the wrong reasons, unfortunately…

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    Oct 28th 2023, 5:27 PM

    Tell that to the two dodgy lads outside the party shop off Henry Street shouting “Halloween contact lenses” which they clearly just lifted from the shop.

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    Oct 29th 2023, 3:50 AM

    Seems some of our politicians wear them all year round based on the decisions they make

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