The mother of a British soldier shot dead alongside a comrade in Northern Ireland has spoke out after a decision to quash the conviction of the man jailed for their murder.
Geraldine Azimkar – whose sapper son Patrick, 21, was gunned down with Mark Quinsey, 23, outside Massereene Army barracks in Antrim – reacted after the Court of Appeal in Belfast ruled the verdicts in the non-jury trial of Brian Shivers were unsafe and quashed his 25-year sentence.
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