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IRA killers behind deaths of 500 UK soldiers escaped justice despite veterans facing ‘witch hunt’ Hundreds of terrorist murders during Troubles went unpunished, Telegraph analysis shows, but it is ex-soldiers facing threat of prosecution 14 May 2021 • 9:00pm Police and firemen at the still smouldering bandstand in Regent s Park, London, following the 1982 bombing that killed seven servicemen. The bomb exploded where the band of the Royal Green jackets was playing Credit: PA The terrorists behind the killings of more than 500 British soldiers during the Troubles have escaped justice, an analysis of historic murders shows, fueling anger over the continued pursuit of veterans through the courts. ....
Veterans and supporters in Belfast Credit: CLODAGH KILCOYNE/REUTERS SIR – Amid the anger over the collapse of charges against ex-soldiers, please remember Staff Sergeant Malcolm Banks, Royal Engineers, acting as infantry. In 1972, reacting to a blast bomb incident near the Short Strand, east Belfast, he rapidly arrived on the scene with his men, two minutes before the IRA ceasefire was to begin at midnight. He was killed: shot in the back. No follow-up by his men, sent to protect the public, could therefore take place, so they carried his body into the hall where he and they were stationed – in St James’s church – and laid him down. Like them and the church, he was a Catholic. ....