Letter from soldier asks forgiveness for killers
- Title
- Letter from soldier asks forgiveness for killers
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 10 Mar 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:00:34
- Description
- Clare Carson reports from Portsmouth on the reaction of the mother of Stephen Cummins, a Portsmouth soldier murdered by the IRA, to a letter he wrote including a moving poem (which she reads out) and which asks his family to forgive his killers.
- Contributors
- Clare Carson
- Keywords
- Deaths; Northern Ireland; Terrorism; IRA; Portsmouth; Poetry; Stephen Cummins
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LBC/IRN, "Letter from soldier asks forgiveness for killers". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0001900444021 (Accessed 13 Jun 2025)