The case of a former British soldier charged with the murder of a man in west Belfast more than 50 years ago has been heard in the city’s Magistrate’s Court for the first time.
Patrick McVeigh, a 44-year-old father of six, was gunned down from a passing car on a street corner at Finaghy Road North in May 1972.
Four other people were injured.
Today the case of a former member of an undercover British Army unit known as the Military Reaction Force, or MRF, charged with Mr McVeigh’s murder was dealt with in court.
The soldier was not named in the court documents and was referred to only as Soldier F.
He also faced four counts of attempted murder of those with…