'Some people want retribution but I don't feel the need to know that to recover and heal, but my experience is unique to me.' Mary Kiely was 11 when her 18-year-old brother, Gerard, was killed in 1975. No one was ever convicted of the murder.
Mary Kiely was 11 when her mother and a priest came into her bedroom in the middle of the night to tell her that he brother had been killed.He was shot dead with his friend Kevin Ballantine as they left Mass in St Brigid's Church in south Belfast in 1975.
She has rarely spoken publicly about Gerard's death: "It was so painful and at the time I cried a lot. A few years later when Mary was 14 she started to suffer from severe headaches and nightmares and then she developed a fever. A central element has involved immunity from prosecution for those who co-operate with investigations run by a new information recovery body.No one was ever convicted of Gerard's murder.
"There will be others whose truth was hidden or twisted a little and I don't know how we handle that but I think it's right that their stories are told and people have the chance to get some answers. Especially for the less well-known stories.
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