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# British Soldier

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# Belfast
Trial of former British soldier for Troubles killing is adjourned after he's taken to hospital
Dennis Hutchings is charged with the attempted murder of John Pat Cunningham in Co Tyrone in 1974.
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Oct 15th 2021, 12:41 PM
# daniel hegarty
Former British soldier to face murder charge over 15-year-old boy shot dead in Derry in 1972
Daniel Hegarty was shot twice in the head on 31 July 1972.
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Apr 15th 2019, 2:46 PM
# Aidan McAnespie
British soldier to face trial over manslaughter of man shot dead in 1988
The 48-year-old man is to be prosecuted for the offence of gross negligence manslaughter.
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Jun 19th 2018, 12:00 PM
# Alexander Blackman
Marine convicted of murdering defenceless Taliban fighter has sentence reduced
Blackman was filmed murdering the injured fighter (and paraphrasing Shakespeare’s Hamlet) in footage captured by a camera on a soldier’s helmet.
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Mar 15th 2017, 12:47 PM
# got ya
British soldier who went to Syria to fight ISIS found and returned to unit
The 19-year-old told his family he was joining the Kurdish fighters because ‘these guys need our help’.
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Feb 23rd 2015, 6:37 PM
# GI BABY
British soldier gives birth at Afghanistan's Camp Bastion
Female soldier is believed to be the first in the history of the British army to give birth on the front line.
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Sep 20th 2012, 10:14 AM
# Afghanistan
British soldier dismissed from army after stabbing Afghan child
The soldier was dismissed from the army after his courtmartial in June convicted him of stabbing a 10-year-old boy in Helmand last year.
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Dec 3rd 2011, 1:48 PM
# Oh No!
British soldier proposes in call from Afghanistan...to the wrong woman
Now the whole world is desperately seeking Samantha and her lovestruck soldier boyfriend.
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Jan 27th 2011, 9:35 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Micheal Martin begins his tenure as FF leader; a surgeon who contracted HIV from a patient settles his case, and a hunt is launched for a soldier who left a proposal for his girlfriend on the wrong answering machine.
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Jan 27th 2011, 8:27 AM