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John Teggart (centre), whose father Danny was shot dead in Ballymurphy, speaks to media outside Belfast Coroner's Court, alongside other bereaved relatives today
A FORMER army medic claimed today he heard an officer suggest planting ammunition on the bodies of those killed in the Ballymurphy massacre.
On August 1971 British soldiers shot dead 10 people over the course of three days in the Ballymurphy area of West Belfast.
Nigel Mumford, who was attached to the Second Battalion of the Parachute Regiment in Ballymurphy on August 9 1971, made the claim while speaking at the inquest into the killings at at Belfast Coroner’s Court.
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