'The system is not fair': MPs criticise Theresa May over Northern Ireland amnesty

Image: Kirsty Wigglesworth Image: Kirsty Wigglesworth MPS HAVE CRITICISED proposals that would exclude British soldiers from an amnesty in relation to deaths during the Troubles.

Mourdaunt said that “a statutory presumption against prosecution” for alleged offences committed in the course of duty more than 10 years ago covering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would be implemented.In April, the Public Prosecution Service said that a former British solider who shot dead a 15-year-old boy in Derry during Bloody Sunday would be charged with murder.

Ian Duncan Smith said that 43 years ago “I was ordered to serve in Northern Ireland to keep the peace from terrorists attacking people in Northern Ireland”. Another MP Johnny Mercer said that the Prime Minister was “beginning to understand the level of fury of veterans in this country when it comes to the treatment of this place over the years”.

What the implication of his question is putting in place a system which would equate soldiers with terrorists, a system any statute of limitations, any amnesty would have to apply across the board. I do not want to see an amnesty for the terrorists. MP Mark Francois raised the case of “a Dublin-born” Chelsea pensioner who transferred to the British army and was posted in Belfast during the Troubles.

But it stopped the bombs going off all over the U.K. and the barbarous murders, do the Tories want that back again by going back on the good Friday agreement

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