Campaigners demand prosecution after schoolboy's death

Outraged human rights campaigners today criticised a decision not to prosecute a soldier who shot dead a Derry schoolboy despite breaching firearms guidelines.

Outraged human rights campaigners today criticised a decision not to prosecute a soldier who shot dead a Derry schoolboy despite breaching firearms guidelines.

In a letter to the Pat Finucane Centre, the Northern Ireland Office confirmed the rules were broken when an army man killed 15-year-old Manus Deery in May 1972.

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