Mother of murdered teenager to continue expulsion campaign

The mother of a Belfast teenager shot dead by two British soldiers eight years ago is due to meet a British official today to demand that the murderers be expelled from the British army.

Eighteen-year-old Peter McBride was shot dead near his home in north Belfast in September 1992.

British soldiers Mark Wright and James Fisher were convicted of his murder in 1995, but were released on special licence in 1998 and readmitted to the British army.

Jean McBride, the victim's mother, has taken legal action on several occasions since then in an effort to have them removed from the army, but all the cases have failed.

Today, she is due to meet John Spellar, an official in the British government's Northern Ireland Office, to continue her campaign.

Mr Spellar, a former Armed Forces Minister, sat on an army board which ruled that Wright and Fisher could resume their jobs in the British army despite being convicted murderers.