US EditionNorthern Ireland Court finds British soldier not guilty in Bloody Sunday killings
Soldier F was acquitted of murdering two men and attempting to kill five others during the 1972 Bloody Sunday shootings, with the trial lasting five weeks at Belfast Crown Court.
- A Northern Ireland court found a British soldier not guilty in the Bloody Sunday killings that occurred on January 30, 1972, during a conflict in Northern Ireland.
- Judge Patrick Lynch stated that the Parachute Regiment members had 'totally lost all sense of military discipline' during the incident.
- The inquiry by Lord Saville in 2010 indicated that the paratroopers fired first and that victims posed no threat.
- Former Prime Minister David Cameron described the killings as 'unjustified and unjustifiable' in a House of Commons apology.
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British Soldier Is Acquitted of Murder in 1972 Bloody Sunday Massacre
A British former paratrooper was acquitted on Thursday of five counts of murder, more than a half-century after his unit killed 14 unarmed Roman Catholic civilians in Northern Ireland on Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days in the sectarian violence known as the Troubles. Referred to only as Soldier F because his identity is protected under court order, the former paratrooper had been charged decades after the events of Jan. 30, 1972, after …
A British court acquitted a former soldier who was charged with murder in the so-called Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland.
More than fifty years after the bloody tragedy in Northern Ireland, the first English soldier tried for murder of Catholic militants was found not guilty for lack of sufficient evidence.
Ex-soldier acquitted of 1972 killings on Northern Ireland’s Bloody Sunday
A Belfast judge rejects 53-year-old hearsay evidence from other soldiers deemed “just as guilty” as the accused. The verdict raises doubts over scores of other potential cases linked to the Troubles.
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