Why? Court proceedings began on the Tory watch? You do come up with some rubbish. End of the day, the evidence as Busby said was flimsy as hell. Same will happen to Soldier F.
Court proceedings are a devolved matter and like Scotland it appears the DPP or whatever they are called appears to be a political appointee.
Blair, of course, having already agreed/issued 'letters of comfort' to the terrorists without thinking about protecting his own troops (who may or may not have done anything wrong but were acting, often in the heat of the moment, to what they could they could see & hear at the time and not having the luxury of high paid legal experts arguing for days in a nice courtroom about whether or not a bomb may or may not be thrown or whether a trigger should or shouldn't have been squeezed.
Some of them shot people in the back. Outside of the RoE. Seems you are another right wing fruit job that would take no notice of the card we carried. Reason it was reinforced post 1972. F admitted he shot 2 unarmed people in the back. His case will be dropped. You want the troubles to have continued post 1997? You are a fruitcake if you did. Read Max Hastings "Going to the Wars" on the start of the troubles. Very clear from a Right Wing writer on why it kicked off. Orange Nutters was a term my brother was told on an intro brief to an infamous radar station in NI. They started this mess. I have no love for the IRA, but it had to be stopped by talking. It was.
Wasn't there a rumour ye olde Martin (Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth) McGuinness at the time of the Bloody Sunday shootings was pointing a weapon out of a tall building looking down hence the melle . He never did deny not being there. Sadly when soldiers become piggy in the middle of a civil conflict the end result alway bloody and no winners.
Soldier F case revived.
Unfortunately it will never happen this is only happening IMHO to appease the republican community, and they will drag this on till it goes away and those left behind are dead or have no will to purse it any longer.Soldier F case revived.
" A former soldier is to stand trial accused of two murders on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972. Former paratrooper Soldier F, who cannot be identified, is accused of murdering James Wray and William McKinney"
50 years after the event you can only hope the same rigour and effort effort is being put into tracing the historical terrorist killers who operated during the same time frame.
Paratrooper to stand trial accused of 2 murders on Bloody Sunday 1972
Soldier F, who cannot be identified, is accused of murdering James Wray and William McKinney when members of the Parachute Regiment shot dead 13 civil rights protesters.www.dailymail.co.uk
