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Prosecutors tried to add a 64-year-old minor conviction as 'bad character' evidence against a British Army veteran as he lay dying of Covid in hospital to try and bolster Troubles case.
A new law to end the historical prosecution of Troubles Army veterans should be introduced in the wake of Dennis Hutchings' death, according to his solicitor Philip Barden.
Dennis Hutchings, 80, was already suffering from terminal kidney failure and heart disease when he flew to Belfast to be tried over the alleged attempted murder of John Pat Cunningham.
Dennis Hutchings, 80, a former member of the Life Guards regiment, is due to return to court in three weeks over the attempted murder of John Pat Cunningham in Co Tyrone in 1974.
Dennis Hutchings, 80, denies the attempted murder of John Pat Cunningham in Co Tyrone.