NORTHERN IRELAND
UTV
The sister of a teenage boy murdered by the IRA in 1973 has described her shock at hearing his case is the “most horrific” before the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.
Bernard Teggart was a vulnerable 15-year-old boy when he was abducted by the IRA, along with his twin brother Gerard, from St Patrick’s Training School in west Belfast in November 1973.
Gerard was let go, but his brother was beaten, tortured, shot and dumped near Belfast Zoo.
“At first they had taken Gerard, thinking Gerard was Bernard, because they were identical. They brought Gerard back and then came and took the two of them,” Alice Harper, Bernard and Gerard’s sister told UTV.
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