Watchdog identifies series of failings in investigation of Kingsmill Massacre

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. The killers asked the occupants of the bus their religion before opening fire. The only Catholic on board was ordered to run away before the sectarian shooting started. Of the 11 Protestants who remained on the roadside, one man, Alan Black, survived, despite being shot 18 times. No-one has ever been convicted of the murders. Mr Black, who is now in his early 80s, attended the offices of Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland Marie Anderson in Belfast on Tuesday to receive her long-awaited report into one of the most notorious atrocities of the Troubles. He was accompanied...