A funeral has taken place for Liam Holden, the final man to be sentenced to demise in Northern Eire, earlier than his conviction was quashed a decade in the past.
The west Belfast man died on September 15, aged 68. Mr Holden’s demise penalty was commuted to life in jail, earlier than a 40-year battle to clear his identify resulted in his homicide conviction being rescinded in 2012.
He mentioned controversial strategies had been used to extract a false confession for the taking pictures of 18-year-old Non-public Frank Bell, who was shot useless on foot patrol in Springfield Avenue in Ballymurphy on September 17, 1972.
Mr Holden was convicted by a jury the next April and was sentenced to hold. He claimed that he was bodily assaulted by members of the Parachute Regiment whereas in army custody, subjected to waterboarding, hooded, after which threatened at gunpoint if he didn't confess to the homicide of the primary member of the Parachute Regiment to be killed in NI.
His demise comes after he commenced a civil case earlier this yr for compensation in respect of those allegations. A judgment is because of be made on his case this month. A nine-day trial was initially scheduled to be heard in Might of final yr.
Nevertheless it was delayed after the Ministry of Defence cited administrative issues in monitoring down two troopers who had been allegedly immediately concerned in occasions on the time.