A man whose convictions for murdering two British soldiers were quashed should face a retrial, the Court of Appeal in Belfast has ordered.

Prosecutors in the North have applied to the Court of Appeal in Belfast to retry a man whose convictions for murdering two British soldiers were quashed.

The limited life expectancy of a terminally-ill dissident republican convicted of murdering two British soldiers should not influence the length of his jail term, his defence lawyer has accepted.