SASless, unfortunately it's the other cases, this one appears to have been a correct finding, but other cases had Court Marshals at the time, and were exonorated, as an example
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...n-conduct.html
If prosecuted, the soldiers, now in their 60s and 70s, will follow six Northern Ireland veterans including Dennis Hutchings, 79, who have already been charged following ‘legacy’ investigations into shootings dating back decades.A number of the soldiers have repeatedly been investigated and cleared of wrongdoing only to be reinvestigated by new units set up in Northern Ireland to deal with historical cases.
The Mail has highlighted the case of great-grandfather Mr Hutchings, who is due to stand trial on an attempted murder charge later this year in relation to a 1974 shooting.
He was previously investigated and cleared twice before his arrest in 2015.
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk...ings/cbp-8352/
There has been significant criticism, on all sides, of the process by which legacy investigations have been, and continue to be, undertaken. Concerns have been expressed over the credibility and reliability of evidence and witness statements that may be over 40 years old and of the re-opening of investigations that had already concluded. Most notable has been the widespread perception that investigations have disproportionately focused on the actions of the armed forces and former police officers: these account for 30% of the LIB’s workload but only form 10% of the overall deaths during the Troubles.
and then there was this, as you can see its a minefield of controversity.
https://www.theweek.co.uk/uk-news/no...given-immunity
BRITISH soldiers who shot dead unarmed civilians during a civil rights march in 1972 should not face prosecution, the former Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain has said.
Police in the province have recently re-opened an investigation into the events of Bloody Sunday, in which 13 protesters were killed by members of the Parachute Regiment. A 14th man died later from his injuries.
Writing in the [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/10670206/Hain-calls-for-Bloody-Sunday-troops-amnesty.html]Sunday Telegraph, Hain said: “Difficult as I know it is for victims on all sides, I see no point in endlessly searching for evidence for crimes committed so many years ago in the Troubles and which is increasingly difficult if not impossible to get given the passage of time.
“If we are going to draw a line on historic and in all probability fruitless investigations, that must include the pursuit of soldiers involved in Bloody Sunday.”
Hain also defended an amnesty granted to IRA suspects while he was in office, which sparked anger last week.
On Monday the trial was halted of John Downey, who was charged last year with killing four British soldiers in a bomb attack in Hyde Park in 1982. A judge ruled that a letter sent in 2007 assuring Downey, now 62, that he would not face trial must be honoured, even though it had been sent by mistake.
The case led Northern Irish First Minister Peter Robinson to issue a threat of resignation, which he withdrew when David Cameron promised a judicial inquiry into the “get out of jail free” letters.