A former British paratrooper has been acquitted of murder over the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland.
The defendant is the only soldier to have been charged in connection with the shooting, in which members of the Parachute Regiment killed 13 demonstrators and injured at least 15 others.
The ex-lance corporal, known only as Soldier F, had pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder — for the deaths of 22-year-old James Wray and 27-year-old William McKinney — and to five counts of attempted murder.
On Thursday, Judge Patrick Lynch ruled at Belfast Crown Court that there was insufficient e
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