Watchdog identifies series of failings in investigation of Kingsmill Massacre

The only surviving member of the Kingsmill massacre Alan Black (right) outside the Police Omudsman’s building in Belfast, following the publication of the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland report into one of the most notorious incidents of the Northern Ireland Troubles – the Kingsmill Massacre (Mark Marlow/PA) - (PA Wire)

A watchdog report into the Kingsmill Massacre has identified a series of failings in the original police investigation of the IRA atrocity, including a “wholly insufficient” deployment of resources to catch the killers.

Ten Protestant men were shot dead outside the village of Kingsmill in Co Armagh in January 1976 when republican gunmen posing as British soldiers ordered them off a minibus on their way home from work.