Justice UK style: soldiers are redline?

The 46-year-old Brian Shivers, who has an estimated five years to live due to cystic fibrosis, was given a life sentence last month for membership in a Real Irish Republican Army (Real RIA) group that shot dead Mark Quinsey and Cengiz “Patrick” Azimkar in Antrim in March 2009.

He was convicted of six counts of attempted murder and one of possession of two firearms and ammunition with intent to harm which he denied.

Shivers’s case was brought to a conclusion in less than three years while the case of British Army’s Parachute Regiment murderers who shot dead 14 civilians in an unprovoked attack on January 30, 1972, is still awaiting consideration.

The official Saville inquiry into the incident, better known as the Bloody Sunday, finally concluded four decades later in July 2010 that “none of” the 13 shot dead and the 18 injured – including one who died four months later of his injuries — on Bloody Sunday “was posing a threat of causing death or serious injury” to the soldiers.

However, none of those guilty of the massacre has stood a trial or has been convicted for any wrongdoing in connection with the killings.

Even the British army has actively protected them from prosecution by withholding over 1,000 photographs and original army helicopter footage from judges and hiding guns used to kill the innocent Irish civilians in a bid to remove all evidence that could lead to the soldiers’ conviction.

Anthony Hart, the Crown Court judge who ruled over Shivers’s case, said the convict was given life imprisonment because he was part of a “ruthless” plan to commit a crime.

“Whilst he played a lesser role than the gunmen and the driver of the attack car, by being at Ranaghan Road and setting fire to the car, he played a prominent and essential role in this carefully planned and ruthlessly executed crime,” Hart said.

However, his description leaves one wondering about the right word to describe what the Saville inquiry termed the “unjustifiable” massacre of innocent civilians as well as the government’s role in obstructing any prosecution of those involved in the brutality.

AMR/HE

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