British soldier faces trial over Northern Ireland’s Bloody Sunday killings | Courts News

The first-ever trial of a former British soldier accused of murder during the 1972 massacre began in Belfast on Monday.

The only British soldier charged with murder over the Bloody Sunday massacre has gone on trial in Northern Ireland, more than half a century after paratroopers opened fire on unarmed civil rights protesters, in what became a watershed moment of the Troubles – the three decades of sectarian conflict in the region.

Soldiers shot 26 civilians that day. Thirteen people were…