The families of five people shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast more than 50 years ago will gather later to hear the findings of an inquest into their deaths.
The victims were a 13-year-old girl, two other teenagers, a father of six and a Catholic priest.
The killings of 16-year-old John Dougal, David McCafferty, 15, Margaret Gargan, 13, Paddy Butler, 38, and Fr Noel Fitzpatrick, 42, became known as the Springhill/Westrock Massacre.
Two other people were injured.
They were fired on by members of the 1 Kings Regiment stationed in a timber yard close to Ballymurphy in west Belfast on 9 July 1972.
The incident occurred on the same day an IRA ceasefire broke down and there had been gunbattles with the British army in another area of the city.
An inquest was first carried out in 1973, which reported an open verdict.
A fresh one was ordered by Northern Ireland's Attorney General and commenced in 2023, hearing 70 days of evidence.
It concluded just before such Troubles inquests were guillotined by the British government's controversial legacy legislation.
It was the last Troubles-related legacy inquest to conclude before the deadline.
The families of the dead said their loved ones had been unarmed civilians and the firing had been unjustified.
The soldiers said they were responding to a perceived threat from gunmen and the force had been proportionate.
Witnesses said some of those shot had been hit as they tried to reach people who had been injured.
The inquest findings will be delivered by a coroner in Belfast this morning.
In a statement on behalf of the Buter, Gargan, Dougal and McCafferty families, relatives said they hope there will be answers to their many remaining questions.
"The deaths of our loved ones that occurred at Springhill and Westrock on 9 July 1972 have cost a long shadow over our lives.
"Each of those who died was an individual - deeply loved and still deeply missed.
"For us this is not history; it is something we have lived with every day," they said.
They said that for five decades, they believed that the original investigations had failed to establish the truth.
They said they await the coroner's verdict with both hope and apprehension.
"Hope that the findings will reflect the full circumstances of what happened and apprehension because of the weight this moment carries for all our families," the statement added.
