Judge to publish findings on shooting of 10 people amid chaotic scenes in Belfast in 1971

An inquest is to deliver its findings on an alleged series of killings by British soldiers in 1971 in which 10 people died, one of the most controversial episodes of the Northern Ireland Troubles.

Mrs Justice Keegan is to publish the report of a coroner’s inquest in Belfast on Tuesday, 50 years after the killings and decades after families of the dead launched a campaign to shed light on what they call the Ballymurphy massacre.

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