Coroner states 15-year-old Manus Deery had posed no threat to anyone and soldier’s actions were completely unjustifiedA teenage boy shot dead by the British army in Derry just months after the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972 was totally innocent and posed no threat to anyone, a coroner has said. The presiding coroner, Mr Justice Adrian Colton, said on Monday that the teenager’s character had been fully vindicated. The soldier who fired the shots and who has since died was “totally unjustified” in his actions on the day, the coroner said. Colton said the official police investigation of the shooting in 1972 was “flawed and inadequate”. Outside the Derry court Manus Deery’s sister Helen said: “We always knew Manus was innocent.

Source: The Guardian April 10, 2017 12:32 UTC