27 February 2020
Soldiers being targeted?
Soldiers are 54 times more likely to be prosecuted than terrorists over deaths during the Troubles, according to a legal claim lodged in the High Court accusing ministers of discriminating against British Army veterans.
The emergency legal action was launched by a great-grandfather suffering kidney failure who goes on trial next month over a fatal shooting in Northern Ireland in 1974.
The judicial review of the prosecution of Dennis Hutchings, 78, is deeply embarrassing for Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his administration, which has repeatedly promised to end prosecutions of troops over historic allegations where no new evidence has come to light.
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