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Kieran Guilbert

British ex-soldier goes on trial for Bloody Sunday killings in Northern Ireland

The only British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland went on trial Monday in Belfast in a case that has come to symbolise the three decades of violence known as the Troubles.

The ex-paratrooper — known as Soldier F under a court anonymity order — is accused of murdering James Wray and William McKinney and attempting to murder five others on 30 January 1972, in Londonderry/Derry.

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