Mother loses challenge over fatal shooting

The mother of a Belfast teenager murdered by two British soldiers today failed in a legal bid to have the pair thrown out of the Army.

The mother of a Belfast teenager murdered by two British soldiers today failed in a legal bid to have the pair thrown out of the Army.

Jean McBride had applied for a judicial review of the decision to allow Scots Guardsman Mark Wright and James Fisher to continue their military careers after serving sentences for shooting dead her 18-year-old son Peter.

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