Army and police accused of cover up over use of plastic bullets during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
Helen Whitters says she has never been told why her son Paul was shot dead with a plastic bulletThe Army and police have been accused of a cover-up in the deaths of children killed by rubber and plastic bullets during the Troubles.
The gun firing rubber, and later plastic, bullets was invented for Northern Ireland and designed to deter people rioting by hurting but not killing them.Rubber and plastic bullet guns were designed as a non-lethal weapon Last year an inquest concluded Stephen was out playing and there was no justification for his shooting.
Paul's mother Helen Whitters said: "This did not sit well with me because that's not who Paul was. We weren't political, let's put it like that. I had to face the fact he had a mask on and I still find that hard."
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