{"id":143191,"date":"2018-06-19T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/aidan-mcanespie-soldier-charged-over-checkpoint-killing\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:27:08","slug":"aidan-mcanespie-soldier-charged-over-checkpoint-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/aidan-mcanespie-soldier-charged-over-checkpoint-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan McAnespie: Soldier charged over checkpoint killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aidan McAnespie was shot as he walked through a checkpoint\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/97A6\/production\/_87822883_aidan.jpg\"\/><figcaption>Image caption                                      Aidan McAnespie was shot as he walked through a checkpoint                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">A soldier has been charged with manslaughter by gross negligence over the 1988 killing of a Catholic man at an Army checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Aidan McAnespie, 23, was hit by one of three bullets fired from a machine gun in Aughnacloy, County Tyrone.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier who fired the shots was initially charged with manslaughter, but the charge was dropped in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have reviewed that decision and have informed Mr McAnespie&#039;s family of the charges.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#039;Regret&#039; over NI checkpoint death<\/li>\n<li>Soldier prosecution decision to be reviewed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr McAnespie was on his way to a Gaelic football match when he was killed.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Image caption                                      Manslaughter charges brought against the soldier were dropped in 1990                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His family claimed he had been deliberately targeted after a sustained campaign of harassment by the Army.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier who fired the shots insisted he accidentally fired his gun because his fingers were wet.<\/p>\n<p>He was fined for negligent discharge of his weapon and medically discharged from the Army.<\/p>\n<p>A report by the Historical Enquiries Team a decade ago questioned his account of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>It said his explanation was the &quot;least likely&quot; version of events.<\/p>\n<p>The PPS reviewed the decision to drop the charges after the case was referred to it by the Attorney General John Larkin.<\/p>\n<p>He had been considering a request from Mr McAnespie&#039;s family for a new inquest into his death.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Image caption                                      A memorial to Mr McAnespie was erected at the scene of where the shooting happened                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image caption Aidan McAnespie was shot as he walked through a checkpoint A soldier has been charged with manslaughter by gross negligence over the 1988 killing of a Catholic man<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}