July 3, 2021 LONDON: The prosecution of two former soldiers over three deaths during Northern Ireland’s troubled past have been halted. Soldier F was being prosecuted for the murder of two men, James Wray and William McKinney, shot during a civil rights demonstration in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday in 1972. Soldier B was to be prosecuted for the murder of 15-year-old Daniel Hegarty in the city six months later. The discontinuation of the high-profile prosecutions follows a review of the cases by the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) in light of a recent court ruling that caused the collapse of another Troubles murder trial involving two military veterans.