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Judge Clears British Ex-soldier Of Bloody Sunday Murders

Relatives gathered outside the Belfast court at the start of the trial last month bearing posters of those killed on Bloody Sunday (Credit: AFP)

A judge in Belfast on Thursday acquitted a British ex-paratrooper of killing unarmed civilians during the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre.

Judge Patrick Lynch told the court he was "satisfied that the soldier or soldiers who opened fire... did so with the intention to kill" but that the prosecution "cannot establish by whose hand the fatal shots were fired, nor those that wounded" others.

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