Schoolgirl shot dead by paratrooper in 1976
Letter to mother formally apologises for killing
Letter to mother formally apologises for killing
Majella O'Hare was 12 years old. It was a bright summer's day in 1976 and the schoolgirl had just walked past an army checkpoint on the way to church. Moments later, she lay dying on a country road in County Armagh, shot in the back by a paratrooper.