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The collapse of the trial of two British soldiers charged with the May 1972 killing of Official IRA Volunteer Joe McCann has sent a wave of anger across the Nationalist community in the North with McCann’s daughter Áine saying “the RUC failed, the criminal justice system failed”.
Paratroopers identified as ‘Soldiers A and C’ walked free from Belfast Crown Court on Tuesday 4 May after a judge dismissed as inadmissible statements the pair made to the now defunct Historical Enquiries Team (HET) in 2010.
In an angry response to the acquittal the human rights NGO Relatives for Justice (RFJ), which advocates on behalf of families of people killed by state and pro-state forces said, “such an appalling injustice is an indictment of the PSNI not to mention a demonstration of their disrespect and disregard for victims of state violence”.
Joe McCann s family hit out at disgusting commentary after collapse of murder case against former paratroopers The widow of Joe McCann, Anne McCann, and daughters Maura and Aine, outside court after the trial of two former paratroopers accused of the murder of Official IRA man Joe McCann in 1972 collapsed. Picture by Mal McCann
Official IRA member Joe McCann. Picture by McCann family handout, Press Association
Joe McCann s family has hit out at the disgusting commentary we have been subjected to by British Army commentators and observers after the murder case against two former paratroopers collapsed.
Mr Justice O Hara found the former soldiers not guilty at Belfast Crown Court on Tuesday.