LISTEN: IRA must admit it was behind Kingsmill Massacre says mother of victim

By Q Radio News

The mother of a man killed in the Kingsmill Massacre is asking the IRA to admit it was behind the atrocity.

Bea Worton's, son Kenneth was among the 10 protestant workmen murdered in 1976.

Yesterday - Sinn Fein MP, Barry McElduff resigned over a controversial tweet which has been linked to the attack.

Mrs Worton has told Q Radio - honesty from those behind the Kingsmill Massacre would give her closure.

Bea Worton isn't the only family member seeking closure.

Republicans would still privately laugh at Kingsmill jokes, Bea's son Colin Worton claims.

He said that made him angry, and urged Sinn Fein to do more to accept his pain.

He conintued  "Words are only words, actions are what we want to see. We want to see everybody condemning it, and rightly so, and for it to be heartfelt and mean it.

"As far as I am concerned, this is only from the teeth out.

"Behind closed doors, I firmly believe there are a lot of Sinn Fein and their supporters who would still laugh at this joke."

West Tyrone MP Barry McElduff has apologised and resigned after posting a video on the anniversary of the shootings.

He said he had not meant it as a reference to the sectarian murders.

Shortly before his death, Mr Worton became a foreman at the Glenanne textile factory where he worked.

He had a wife and two young girls who were waiting for him to come home on the night of the attack, a recent inquest into Kingsmill has been told.

Colin Worton said he was sickened, disgusted and angry at Mr McElduff's reaction. It was the "straw that broke the camel's back", he added.

He said: "Until they accept my hurt, and whatever loyalists have done the same, their hurt where they have killed nationalists, all this has to stop. We have to move on, but we have to move on as equals, not to be remembering and even glorifying people who were in terrorist organisations."

He said glorification of terrorism, loyalist or republican, was wrong.