Soldier ‘could not have been at massacre’

Claims that a British soldier could have been at the scene of the Kingsmill massacre are “inconceivable”, a court has been told.

There have previously been rumours that Captain Robert Nairac could have been at the scene of the January 1976 attack, in which 10 Protestant workmen were gunned down in south Armagh.

The sole survivor of the attack, Alan Black, has testified that he heard one of those involved speaking with an English accent.

That sparked speculation about the English soldier who served in Northern Ireland during the conflict andwaslaterabductedand killed by the IRA.

However, a military witness from the Ministry of Defence has told an inquest at Laganside Court into the incident that Capt Nairac’s presence at the scene was “inconceivable”.