A Valentine’s Day tragedy

By Mary Nelis

Thirty years ago on Valentines Day 1979, a British soldier was shot dead at the junction of Wapping Lane and Abercorn Road. The death of the soldier would impact on the lives of four young men and their families and would set in train a series of events that to this day has not been fully resolved.

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