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Family celebrate their fight for justice from 1971 to now after Ballymurphy verdict

Sky, 12 May 2021
The original inquests returned open verdicts back in the 1970's and that led to a campaign by the victims' families to finally get the innocent verdict they always maintained was true of the death's in west Belfast during a Army operation.

After a wait of almost fifty years to get justice for a lost parent, husband, son or wife.

The dead included:

- Roman Catholic priest, Father Hugh Mullan, 38 years-old;
- Francis Quinn, 44-year-old
- Noel Phillips, 19-year-old
- Joan Connolly, a 44-year-old
- Daniel Teggart, 44-year-old
- Joseph Murray, 41-years-old;
- Edward Doherty, 43-years-old;
- John Laverty, 20-year-old
- and Joseph Corr who was 43-years-old.

The coroner could not say who shot the tenth victim - John McKerr, who was also innocent.

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