Payments proposed for Troubles victims' relatives

Bereavement payments should be made to relatives of people killed during the Troubles, including those who were paramilitaries, it has been proposed.

The suggestion is contained in an advice paper from the Commission for Victims and Survivors sent to the Executive Office at Stormont.

Alan Brecknell, whose father was killed by loyalists at a bar in Silverbridge, County Armagh, in 1975, said it was about acknowledgement for what his family went through.

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