Liam Holden was waterboarded and tortured by British army, Belfast high court rules

Liam Holden, who died last year, with his family outside the court of appeal in Belfast after he had his conviction for murder quashed in 2012. Photograph: Paul Faith/PA

In 1973 Liam Holden was convicted of murdering a British soldier in Northern Ireland and became the last person in the United Kingdom to be sentenced to hang.

On Friday – half a century after the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, 11 years after the sentence was quashed and a year after Holden died – a high court in Belfast awarded £350,000 to his estate.