to the military. he was walking across the border to go to a gay football match. mr holden fired three bullets from the machine gun, one of which ricochets across the road and struck aidan mcanespie in the back, killing him he was walking across the border to go to gaelic football match. he said he had been doing cleaning duties at the army base just before that, his hands were wet and he had been pointing the weapon in the wrong direction his hand slipped onto the trigger and he fired the bullets by accident. howeverthejudge trigger and he fired the bullets by accident. however thejudge here is tojustjust so have accident. however thejudge here is to justjust so have at accident. however thejudge here is to just just so have at the accident. however thejudge here is to justjust so have at the end of this nonjury trial says he believed holden was not was liberally false. he said holden was criminally culpable, that he was in and that means he is guilty of mostly
and he said the machine gun was pointing the wrong direction, he tried to put it back in the right position, his hands were wet from cleaning duties he had just carried out, and he said his finger slipped onto the trigger. the judge he dismissed those claims. he said in fact holden had given a deliberately false account. he said holden had pointed the gun at aidan mcanespie, aidan mcanespie had, the court heard, been a person of interest to the military northern ireland at the time, and the judge said that holden deliberately pulled the trigger. however, holden thought that the gun was not cocked, in other words, he didn t expect it would actually fire live rounds. the judge said that he found holden guilty of gross negligence, manslaughter, because he said it should have been apparent that holden was handling a lethal weapon, and therefore that a death could occur if the weapon was fired.
machine gun at an army checkpoint on the border with the irish republic near loch mccloy in county tyrone. aidan mcanespie is a person of interest to the military, he was walking across the border to go to a gaelic football match. mr holden fired three bullets from the machine gun, one of which ricocheted off the road and struck aidan mcanespie in the back, killing him. holden was charged with manslaughter in the 19805, that charged with manslaughter in the 1980s, that case was dropped. his claim has been that he accidentally fired the trigger. he said, for example, that he had been doing cleaning duties at the army base slightly beforehand, that his hands were wet and that the weapon was pointing in the wrong direction when he went to pointed in the right direction his hand slipped onto the trigger and he fired the bullet by accident. however, thejudge here at the end of this nonjury trial and
sense of the machine gun was pointing the wrong direction, he tried to put it back in the right position, his hands were wet from cleaning duties, he had just carried out, and he said his fingers slipped onto the trigger. the judge he dismissed those claims. he said in fact holden had given a deliberately false account. he said holden had pointed the gun at aidan mcanespie, aidan mcanespie heard, the court heard, been a person of interest to the military northern ireland at the time, and thejudge said that holden deliberately pulled the trigger. however, holden thought that the gun was not cocked, in other words, he didn t expect it would actually fire live rounds. thejudge said that didn t expect it would actually fire live rounds. the judge said that he found holden guilty of gross negligence, manslaughter, because he said it should have been apparent that holden was handling a lethal weapon, and therefore that a death
was in charge of machine gun. aidan mcanespie was 23, he was walking across the border to go to a football match and he was fatally wounded by a bullet fired by holding that ricocheted off the road and struck mr mcanespie in the back. the court heard that mr mcanespie was a person of interest at the time for stub david holden s defence chiefly was that he accidentally fired the gun because his hands had been wet from cleaning duties he had just carried out and his finger slipped onto the trigger, but the judge here at belfast crown court dismissed that, he found that holden had pointed the gun deliberately at aiden mcanespie, that he pulled the trigger on purpose. thejudge did accept that holden did not know that the gun was caulked on the ready to fire live rounds, but he said that assuming the gun was not was in and