Pearse Jordan

The 23-year-old from Ballymurphy in west Belfast was shot dead as he ran away from a stolen car after it was rammed by an undercover RUC unit on Falls Road in November 1992. His family have fought a 16-year legal battle to have the policemen involved in his killing give evidence in court. In 2001 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the British government had failed to properly investigate the killing and ordered it to carry out a new investigation.

1992
Belfast
State Violence

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