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Troubles veteran ‘thrown to wolves' in ‘relentless' investigations
Wearing a hearing aid, the former paratrooper now in his mid-seventies explains that his memory is not as good as it once was. 'There are huge gaps,' said the man known as Soldier C, speaking publicly for the first time in more than a decade.
In 2021 the veteran, a recipient of the British Empire Medal for his service during the Troubles, went on trial for murder in Northern Ireland over the fatal shooting of the Official IRA commander Joe McCann in the Markets area of Belfast in 1972.
It was the first prosecution since the 1998 Good Friday agreement. He was subsequently acquitted as the landmark case collapsed because of a lack of fresh evidence. Now, four years on, he is facing his another investigation, his fifth overall, in the form of an inquest.
