NORTHERN IRELAND
UTV
A brother from the De La Salle order has told the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry that he deeply regrets the IRA abduction of a teenager from one of its schools in west Belfast.
Fifteen-year-old Bernard Teggart was abducted from St Patrick’s on the Glen Road in 1973.
The school has already been criticised for not fulfilling its duty of care, allowing the abduction to happen and failing to report it to authorities.
On Tuesday the De La Salle order said it was of “deep regret” that Bernard was taken from the care of the order and murdered.
Giving evidence at the HIA inquiry, brother Francis Manning said that at the time there was a lot of fear in west Belfast as to what you said or didn’t say, do or didn’t.
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