Co Tyrone farmer shot in cold blood by British soldier ‘exonerated’

Michael McElhone holds a photograph of his late brother Paddy (Brian Lawless/PA)

A farmer shot dead in cold blood by the Army during the Northern Ireland conflict has been exonerated, his family said.

Paddy McElhone, 24, died instantly near his home in Pomeroy, Co Tyrone, in 1974 after he was fired on by a soldier from the First Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Wales.