HC Deb 21 June 1972 vol 839 cc136-7W
Mr. Stratton Mills

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement on the murder by shooting of 12-year-old Joan Scott on Old park Road, Belfast, on 28th May.

Mr. Channon

At approximately 7.50 p.m. on Sunday, 28th May, 1972, a burst of automatic fire was directed at two RUC constables on duty at the junction of Mount view Street and Rosapenna Street, Belfast, from the vicinity of Ardilea Street or Gracehill Street. One of the constables was hit and two girls, Eileen Waters, 13 years of age, and Joan Scott, 12 years of age, who were walking nearby received gunshot wounds.

The constable and the two girls were taken to the Mater Hospital, Belfast, where Joan Scott died of her wound on Tuesday 30th May, 1972.