A coroner has been told he will hear evidence that an explosion which caused the death of a teenager in Belfast 50 years ago was the result of a co-ordinated UVF attack, rather than an “IRA own goal”.
John Moran was 19 when he was seriously injured in a bomb attack at Kelly’s Bar on the Springfield Road on May 13 1972, and died of his injuries 10 days later.
At the opening of a fresh inquest being heard by coroner Joe McCrisken at Banbridge Courthouse, it was stated that Mr Moran’s girlfriend was pregnant at the time of his death and he never met his son.
