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UTV can exclusively reveal that a PSNI review claims Bernard Teggart, a 15-year-old murdered by the IRA in 1973, was ‘failed lamentably’ by St Patrick’s Training School in west Belfast.
Story by Damien Edgar @damien_utv & Sharon O’Neill @sharon_utv, Belfast
Bernard’s case was recently described as the ‘most horrific case’ to come before the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA).
In November 1973, Bernard and his brother Gerard were both abducted from the school by members of the IRA.
Despite being aged 15, the boys had a mental age of no more than eight.
The twins had a record of trouble with the police due to their mental health problems, which in turn brought them to the attention of the IRA.
On the day before Bernard’s murder, police files show that three IRA men came to the school and interrogated his brother Gerard in the woodwork room.
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