BRITAIN’S armed forces have been accused of another cover-up after it emerged that soldiers shot dead a man in Belfast in 1972 whose death was then blamed on the IRA.

Factory foreman Thomas Mills was killed on July 18 that year in the Ballygomartin Road area where he worked.

The unarmed Protestant civilian’s death was pinned on the IRA, but legacy research organisation Paper Trail uncovered a British army logbook which it says shows that he was in fact shot dead by soldiers from the King’s Regiment.