Various shyster lawyers represented the phoney claimants but rigorous re-examinations found no murderers or torturers in our uniform. Eventually the Law Society struck off persistent persecutor Phil Shiner who had hounded hundreds of veterans (all exonerated) and written copiously for The Guardian.
Now the Police Service of Northern Ireland has re-opened the hounding of 12 veterans who served there, even though they are all now very elderly, some in frail health, and all have already been investigated once – with a finding of “no case to answer”.
And still the hounding of veterans goes on. For the record, 722 servicemen were murdered over there. Prosecutions of known IRA gunmen by the PSNI – zero.