TWO British soldiers who shot five people in two areas of west Belfast on July 9 1972 “overreacted and lost control,” a coroner told an inquest into the killings today.Mr Justice Scoffield rejected the explanation that the soldiers were reacting to a mass “co-ordinated” attack on a timber yard, where the soldiers were based, saying that their brigade’s radio logs “hugely undermine” that narrative.He said he also rejected the civilian case that “not one shot had been fired” by civilians before British soldiers opened fire and said that was “much too simplistic an analysis.”

TWO British soldiers who shot five people in two areas of west Belfast on July 9 1972 “overreacted and lost control,” a coroner told an inquest into the killings today.

Mr Justice Scoffield rejected the explanation that the soldiers were reacting to a mass “co-ordinated” attack on a timber yard, where the soldiers were based, saying that their brigade’s radio logs “hugely undermine” that narrative.

He said he also rejected the civilian case that “not one shot had been fired” by civilians before British soldiers opened fire and said that was “much too simplistic an analysis.”

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