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Ahern to brief PM on Scots soldiers
19 December 1998 --
TAOISEACH Bertie Ahern is set discuss with Prime Minister Tony Blair the battle
of a Belfast family to have their son’s killers thrown out of the British army.
The family of murdered north Belfast teenager Peter McBride held an hour-long
meeting with the taioseach in Dublin yesterday. The 18-year-old’s convicted
killers, Scots guardsmen Mark Wright and James Fisher, were told they could
remain in the army last month after serving six years in prison. Mr McBride’s
family, who have been fighting to have the decision to allow the men to return
to the armed forces overturned, welcomed Mr Ahern’s promised intervention. The
teenager’s father, also called Peter McBride, yesterday said the family had been
“very pleased” to get an opportunity to brief the Fianna Fail leader on their
campaign. He said: “We are very pleased with the outcome. Mr Ahern was very
sympathetic. He understood our feelings. “We hope he will be able to get Tony
Blair to understand as well.” The McBrides were accompanied to Dublin by Paul
O’Connor of the Belfast based Pat Finucane centre and a member of the Madden and
Finucane solicitors’ firm. Mr O’Connor said: “We briefed the taioseach on the
political and legal campaign being waged to bring about reversal of the MoD’s
(Ministry of Defence) decision to keep them in the army. “He said he will raise
the matter directly with Tony Blair and he asked us to keep him briefed on the
campaign as it progresses.” Father-of-two Peter McBride was shot in the back
moments after he had been searched by an army patrol in September 1992. Fisher,
from Arbroath and Wright, from Ayr, later claimed they believed the teenager had
been carrying a coffee jar bomb. But the claim was rubbished at their trial. The
men were released from prison on licence in September and within weeks the army
announced they were to rejoin their regiment.
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