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Lee Clegg faces court martial

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  • 05-03-2005 6:14pm
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    Roisin Dubh
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    Hopefully he will now be thrown out of the British Army. But he should have been thrown out long before now!



    http://www.utv.ie/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=57486&pt=n
    SATURDAY 05/03/2005 14:56:49
    Lee Clegg faces court martial

    Soldier Lee Clegg is to face a court martial over allegations that he assaulted a teenager, it was reported today.
    By:Press Association

    The paratrooper, 36, and from Bradford, was convicted of murder after shooting two teenage joyriders in Belfast in 1990.

    The soldier was accused of using excessive force and firing a fourth shot into the back of the car, which killed passenger Karen Reilly, 18.

    He was jailed for life in 1993 and freed on licence two years later. He was cleared following a retrial in 1999.

    Now, an acting sergeant, he is accused of punching a boy soldier and making him lie about an injury.

    The Sun said that if found guilty he faces up to six years in jail and could be thrown out of the army.

    It reported that he is now head of an Army police section.

    A Ministry of Defence spokesman said: "He is going to face a court martial in May at the military court in Catterick.

    "The charges relate to allegations made by a junior soldier at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate."

    The court martial is scheduled to take place on May 16.


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