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I don't think I'm missing the point - I understand why you and your former comrades feel as you do. Personally, if I'd like for anyone who is known, and evidenced, to be guilty of such crimes to be brought to account (on all sides) but understand why this can't happen (for the greater good and...

He's not making that up. The victim is described as a 'Sinn Fein activist' in various media outlets.

I don't think anybody is suggesting that are they? I agree with your fellow posters above about the most plausible scenario, FWIW, which if correct would mean that he didn't actually intend to do it, but that the outcome was of his doing. (Thus the 'manslaughter by negligence' charge, rather...

Honestly, I don't know. If it were a genuine accident, then it is just more hurt on top of existing hurt, to drag him through this now. If he was at fault (and there would I'm sure be plenty of mitigation - he was a scared kid himself in all probability) then it is not right to deny the victims...

Yes - he'd have been just 18 (it was 1988 and the report states he is 48 now). 'The army dealt with it at the time' is not enough for some - perhaps understandably? If they didn't trust the British forces actions, they were hardly going to accept an internal investigation into them. People are...