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The Ballymurphy massacre was a series of incidents between 9 and 11 August 1971, in which the 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment of the British Army killed eleven civilians in Ballymurphy, Belfast, Northern Ireland, as part of Operation Demetrius (internment without trial).
Derek Tony Wood, aged 24, and David Robert Howes, aged 23, were corporals in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals. According to the British Army, Wood and Howes ignored general orders to stay away from the area where the funeral was being held. [9] It has been presumed that the two men drove into the procession by mistake.
Andrew Walker (1953/1954 – 3 September 2021) [1] was a British Army corporal in the Royal Scots who murdered three colleagues in a payroll robbery in the Pentland Hills, south of Edinburgh, in January 1985.
Two of the perpetrators, Peter Barnes and James McCormick were convicted and executed for the crime. 22 February 1972 Aldershot bombing: Aldershot, England 7 18 A car bomb outside the headquarters of the British Army's 16th Parachute Regiment by Official IRA member Noel Jenkinson. 4 February 1974 M62 coach bombing: West Yorkshire, England 12 38
Fusilier Rigby of the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 2011. On the afternoon of 22 May 2013, a British Army soldier, Fusilier Lee Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was attacked and killed by Islamist terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale [3] near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, southeast London.
On 25 March 2009, after a judicial review of their detention, all the men were ordered to be released by the Belfast High Court; Duffy was immediately re-arrested on suspicion of murder. [43] On 26 March 2009, Duffy was charged with the murder of the two soldiers and the attempted murder of five other people.
The killings of Michael Naan and Andrew Murray, better known as the Pitchfork murders, was the killing of two Catholic civilians in October 1972, by two British Army soldiers of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
The judges described the crime as "inhumane when planned, and vulgar when exercised". In court the soldiers' only explanation was that they "wanted a woman". On 16 April 1996, Jensen's parents received a written apology from the British Ministry of Defence on behalf of Prime Minister John Major. In 1998, a higher court cut their sentences to 25 ...