US EditionTrial of ex-soldier accused of Bloody Sunday murders to begin
Soldier F faces charges for two murders and five attempted murders during Bloody Sunday, following the 2010 Saville Inquiry that found no justification for the shootings.
- A former British soldier, identified as Soldier F, will stand trial charged with murdering two men and attempting to murder five others on Bloody Sunday in 1972 in Derry, Northern Ireland.
- Thirteen people were shot dead by British soldiers during a civil rights protest on Bloody Sunday, and a public inquiry found that none of those killed posed a threat.
- The families of the Bloody Sunday victims have waited 53 years for the trial after the prosecution service initially decided not to charge Soldier F but later reversed the decision following a court challenge.
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British soldier stands trial over 1972 Bloody Sunday killings
BELFAST (Reuters) -The trial of the sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland began on Monday, over half a century on from one of the defining moments of The Troubles. Read full story
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Ex-British soldier goes on trial in landmark Bloody Sunday case
The first ever trial of a former British soldier accused of murder over the Bloody Sunday massacre began on Monday in Belfast -- a landmark moment in Northern Ireland's conflict-scarred history.
The veteran denies the charges.
The first trial in more than 53 years for Bloody Sunday, the massacre perpetrated by British soldiers on a peacefully demonstrating crowd, begins in Belfast today. The anonymized "Soldier F" is on trial for two counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder during the protest on January 30, 1972, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The Northern Irish protesters demonstrated that day against British rule and human rights violations against th…
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