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.

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.

Although High Court judge Mr Justice Kerr accepted that the soldiers had no justification for opening fire and later lying about the incident, he still rejected the north Belfast woman’s case.