Sinn Féin MP Maskey said the coroner’s findings vindicate families who have long maintained their loved ones were innocent and shot without justification.
“Sitting through the court yesterday, it must have been very hard for the family members, but it was something that they already knew,” he said.
“Their family members were shot in the back. Soldiers lost control on the streets of Springhill and Whiterock.
“That is something that the family members already knew but to hear it again at the court, to me, that justifies what the family have been saying all along.”
He warned against moves to limit future prosecutions adding that victims families would never accept immunity for soldiers.
“There can’t be any amnesty for British soldiers because I don’t think families will ever, ever accept that.”