Lawyers apply for retrial in Massereene barracks murder case

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 court yesterday ruled that the convictions against Brian Shivers for the 2009 murders of sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, outside Massereene army barracks in Antrim were unsafe.