Former soldier David Holden has been given a suspended sentence for killing Aidan McAnespie in a shooting at an Army checkpoint in Northern Ireland almost 35 years ago
An ex-soldier has been given a suspended sentence for killing an unarmed man at an Army checkpoint in Northern Ireland 35 years ago.He was killed by a bullet which ricocheted off the road and hit him in the back at a County Tyrone checkpoint.Mr McAnespie was walking through checkpoint in the village of Aughnacloy on his way to attend a Gaelic football match when the fatal shot was fired.
Holden claimed his hands were wet at the time and his finger slipped on the trigger of his machine gun, discharging three shots Convicting him, he said he considered the defendant "criminally culpable" of gross negligence manslaughter, beyond any reasonable doubt.
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