A teenager shot dead by a soldier in Belfast in 1975 was an 'entirely innocent man', an inquest hears
Leo Norney was 17 years old when he was shot dead by a soldier in west Belfast in 1975An inquest has found a soldier shot dead "an entirely innocent man" in Belfast in 1975, and that his patrol concocted a story of being fired on to cover it up.The soldier involved, Lance Corporal John Ross MacKay, died in 2015.
Mc McGurgan also criticised the Ministry of Defence in his findings, adding that the soldier had posed a risk to the public. She added the Army's narrative of the night Mr Norney was killed has been "exposed as deceit and lies"."Leo was not armed. He did not pose a threat to anyone. He was shot in cold blood and his shooting is unjustified."Later that night, after the soldiers returned to their base, they concocted a false story which blackened Leo's name for almost 50 years. They said that Leo was a gunman and that Leo had opened fire on them.
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