Consistent prejudice

THE sister of Peter McBride, who was murdered in Belfast by British soldiers, recently highlighted the contrast between the treatment of Ptes Wright and Fisher and Major Charles Ingram.

Ingram was expelled from the British Army for cheating on a TV quiz show while the convicted murderers of McBride were retained in the army and one was promoted.

This week at the Bloody Sunday tribunal, it was revealed that the private who found the British army’s “shot list” describing the victims as “bombers” and “gunmen” was court-martialed and dismissed, while the compiler of that list has been repeatedly promoted and decorated as General Sir Mike Jackson.