{"id":143200,"date":"2018-06-19T10:57:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/aidan-mcanespie-soldier-faces-checkpoint-killing-charges\/"},"modified":"2018-06-19T10:57:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T10:57:05","slug":"aidan-mcanespie-soldier-faces-checkpoint-killing-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/aidan-mcanespie-soldier-faces-checkpoint-killing-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan McAnespie: Soldier faces checkpoint killing charges"},"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 is to be 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. He was on his way to a Gaelic football match.<\/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 informed Mr McAnespie&#039;s family.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Army killing report &#039;cannot be released&#039;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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 Public Prosecution Service reviewed the decision to drop the charges after the case was referred to it by 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 is to be charged with manslaughter by gross negligence over the 1988 killing of a Catholic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143200","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\/143200","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=143200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}