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Jean Smyth-Campbell
AN UNDERCOVER British army unit accused of shooting a young mother in 1972 is back in the spotlight after a Belfast court ordered a new investigation into her killing.
Jean Smyth-Campbell died in a drive-by shooting in west Belfast aged 24 on the night of June 8, 1972, at the height of the Troubles.
The IRA was initially blamed by police, but evidence later emerged that an undercover British army unit could have carried out the killing.
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