A Belfast judge on Thursday acquitted a British ex-paratrooper of killing unarmed civilians during the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, a verdict condemned by victims’ relatives and Northern Ireland’s political leader.
Judge Patrick Lynch told the court he was satisfied there had been an intention to kill but that the prosecution had failed to “establish by whose hand the fatal shots were fired”.
“I find the accused not guilty on all seven counts,” he said, acquitting him of two charges of murder…
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