Keith go look at my psot in the "Provisionals condemn McCartney murder" thread. I think you will see arrests in the McCartney case. You don't think sectarian violence has any relevance in the N. Ireland context. Well I have another "story" for you.

Carol Ann Kelly 12 years, Twinbrook, west Belfast, struck by a plastic bullet fired by a member of the British Army's Royal Fusiliers.

Carol Ann was playing outside her home with some of her friends when a neighbour called her and asked her to run to shop for some milk for her baby. Carol Ann obliged and went off on the errand, but as she was walking back from the shop two British Army armoured vehicles entered the estate. The three friends were walking along a grassy bank leading to a row of terrace houses, where Carol Ann lived, when the armoured vehicles approached. One of the young girls with Carol Ann later described what occurred as the two British Army vehicles passed them. 'We could hear them (the soldiers) shouting about the five soldiers who had been killed that day. They shouted 'We will get one of your mates for our five mates today'. Then there was a shot, which hit McConvey's fence. I ducked behind the fence, and from where I was it seemed as though Carol Ann tried to make her way into Mrs Oscar's garden and then came the second shot, this being the shot I believed hit Carol Ann. I didn't realize she had been hit until I came out of Mrs McConvey's garden. I saw her lying on the ground with blood coming from her head...' and, '...her leg was curled up underneath her' She just literally fell on her back and the bag with the carton of milk was lying on the ground.'

Carol Ann's mother witnessed the shooting from the upstairs window of their home. She said she noticed the armoured vehicles approaching and then slowing down near their home and a gun going up in one of them. 'Of course' she said 'I thought nothing of it because that was usual, but then I heard the bang and seen the smoke coming out of the gun. ...I looked round to see where Carol Ann was and she was just falling back. She went straight down. I stood for a moment or two. I just couldn't take it in. My son Mark came running down the street and I heard him shouting 'Oh they've shot our Carol Ann, they've shot our Carol Ann'. Mrs Kelly found her daughter lying unconscious surrounded by a small group of people attempting to give first aid. A soldier in one of the army vehicles alighted from it and ran up the grassy bank towards the dying girl, apparently distressed and shouting, 'It's only a little girl, it's only a little girl.' He threw his gun down. He told the group of people he was a medic. At first people shouted at him and refused to let him near the girl but Mrs Kelly asked them to let him help if he could. The soldier's commander also got out of his jeep and began shouting at the soldier for trying to help the dying girl, and reprimanding him for throwing down his weapon.

The ambulance took sometime to arrive at the scene due to the actions of other British soldiers mounting a checkpoint at the entrance to the estate, who told the ambulance driver that no one had been hurt, forcing the driver to turn around before he was redirected to the scene by radio. Carol Ann was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital, where she died without regaining consciousness two days later.

The British Army in statement concerning the shooting claimed the child was hit near Saint Luke's Primary School when soldiers at the school were attacked by a mob. The school was quite some distance from the where Carol Ann was actually hit, and therefore according to eyewitnesses, the Army statement was a total fabrication.

An inquest into Carol Ann Kelly death was held nearly a year later, in early May 1982. None of the soldiers involved in the incident attended the hearing, their statements being read out by representatives. In their statements they again claimed the child was shot near Saint Luke's School during a riot. However, civilian eyewitnesses, who attended the hearing, all rejected completely the allegations of any rioting at the time the child was shot, and were also adamant that the scene of the shooting was near Carol Ann's home and not the school.

All the civilian witnesses described the area being quiet; the armoured vehicles speeding along the road; Carol Ann and her friends walking along the grass bank; then two bangs, and the injured child shouting 'Somebody help me,' before collapsing.

The coroner in his 'findings' said that Carol Ann Kelly was an innocent bystander when she was 'struck on the head by the second of two plastic bullets fired as she passed Aspen Park.' By accepting the child was struck near Aspen Park the coroner had disregarded the soldiers' statements that the shooting took place near the school, but he believed that "technically a riot had been going on", when more than three people had been gathered in an unlawful fashion. Some missiles were thrown', he said, 'and the plastic bullets fired on that act. Whether this gives rise to any criminal or civil liability is not for me to say.'

The coroner rejected an appeal for another inquest in front of a jury by the Kelly family legal representative because it had come too late in the proceedings.

No British soldiers were ever charged in connection with the killing of Carol Ann Kelly.

Some cover-ups use forensics and intimidation other use press releases, intimidation and British Justice. You see Keith you have to deal with the whole ball of wax.