Families bereaved by security force killings in Northern Ireland reject an apology by Northern Secretary Karen Bradley over her comments saying the killings were not crimes
Families bereaved by security force killings in Northern Ireland have described an apology by Northern Secretary Karen Bradley over her comments saying the killings were not crimes as "too little, too late".
Briege Voyle, whose mother Joan Connolly was one of those shot dead, said: "I think she is a disgrace. Mrs Voyle said that Mrs Bradley should "hang her head in shame and leave. And leave through the back door because nobody wants to know her - one more time she has put her foot in it and I just think she needs to go."
Aidan McAnespie was killed by a British soldier at the a border post in Aughnacloy, Co Tyrone, in February 1988.Vincent McAnespie said his family could not believe at first what the Northern Secretary had said.
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