A former soldier accused of two murders on Bloody Sunday has pleaded not guilty as he was formally returned for trial after an attempt to get the case thrown out was refused. Ex-paratrooper Soldier F,

LONDON (AP) — A former British soldier will be tried for the murder of two men killed during the 1972 “Bloody Sunday” disturbances in Londonderry, Northern Ireland’s second-biggest city, after a judge refused to dismiss the charges against him.

Ex-paratrooper is accused of murdering two people in Londonderry in 1972 following a Labour appeal of Troubles Legacy Act

A former British soldier on Friday pleaded not guilty to murdering two men during the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, one of the most significant events in Northern Ireland's decades-long conflict.

Soldier F is accused of murdering James Wray and William McKinney when members of the Parachute Regiment shot dead 13 civil rights protesters in 1972.