Bloody Sunday: Not guilty verdict in Soldier F murder trial
A Belfast court delivered a not-guilty verdict on Thursday in the trial of a former British Army paratrooper accused of the murder of two young men in the Bloody Sunday shootings in Derry 53 years ago.
It was the first-ever trial of a former British soldier accused of killing unarmed civilians during the massacre.
The veteran, referred to as Soldier F for legal reasons, was accused of the murders of James Wray and William McKinney during a civil rights march in the city on January 30th, 1972.
By the end of that dreadful day, 13 unarmed civilians had been shot dead by the Parachute Regiment…
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