Families bereaved by security force killings in Northern Ireland have described an apology by Northern Secretary Karen Bradley over her comments saying the killings were not crimes as "too little, too late".
She has said she is "profoundly sorry" for the "offence and hurt" caused after she suggested deaths caused by soldiers and police during the Troubles were not crimes.
Ten people were shot dead during three days of gunfire involving members of the Parachute Regiment in the Ballymurphy neighbourhood of west Belfast in August 1971.
Their deaths are being examined during long-awaited inquests in Belfast Coroner's Court.
Ahead of today's proceedings, relatives spoke outside court to demand Mrs Bradley's immediate resignation.
Briege Voyle, whose mother Joan Connolly was one of those shot dead, said: "I think she is a disgrace.
"We had to sit in there yesterday, me and my sisters, and listen to the horrific things that those soldiers done to my mummy.
"And she's telling me these soldiers did this with dignity? Where was the dignity in that? Where was my mummy's dignity, where was my mummy's right to life?"
Mrs Voyle said that Mrs Bradley should "hang her head in shame and leave. And leave through the back door because nobody wants to know her - one more time she has put her foot in it and I just think she needs to go."
John Teggart, whose father Danny was shot 14 times, said Mrs Bradley had caused "deep hurt" and that her apology is "too little, too late".
"I think Karen Bradley should resign immediately. She is in a position where she should never have been put. She has brought disgrace on to her government and she has insulted many, many people."
Comments 'hurtful' says McAnespie's brother
Vincent McAnespie, the brother of 23-year-old Aidan McAnespie, has said that people in Northern Ireland have had to resign for lesser reasons in recent times than what he called the "hurtful" comments made by Mrs Bradley.
Aidan McAnespie was killed by a British soldier at the a border post in Aughnacloy, Co Tyrone, in February 1988.
A 48-year-old soldier has been charged with his manslaughter by gross negligence.
Vincent McAnespie said his family could not believe at first what the Northern Secretary had said.
He added that it was obvious that Mrs Bradley's comments in Westminster yesterday were prepared and they showed there was a policy of collusion agreed between the British state and the security forces to shoot civilians during the Troubles.
Victims' sister 'so let down'
Ann Travers, whose sister was shot dead by the IRA in 1984 in Belfast, has described the comments by Mrs Bradley "misinformed, ill judged and stupid".
Her 22-year-old sister Mary was shot dead and her father Tom seriously injured in the gun attack as the family left mass at St Brigid's Church in south Belfast on 8 April 1984.
Ms Travers said she felt "so let down" by Mrs Bradley's remarks which she said had "done nothing to progress healing and reconciliation on the island".
Ms Travers said victims of the Troubles have had to fight every step of the way to have their loved ones heard.
She said Mrs Bradley had taken "a step back" and has deeply hurt and angered the men and women who serve in the armed forces and the police who put on the uniform every day to protest and sustain life.
She said they would not want those who had dishonoured the uniform not to be held accountable.
