Updated 5:13am 24 January 2013

Retrial over Army barracks murders

A man whose convictions for murdering two British soldiers were quashed should face a retrial, the Court of Appeal in Belfast has ordered.

The same court ruled on Tuesday that the convictions against Brian Shivers for the 2009 murders of sappers Mark Quinsey, 23, and Patrick Azimkar, 21, outside Massereene army barracks in Antrim were unsafe.

After the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) applied for a new trial for the 47-year-old from Magherafelt, Co Londonderry, the three Appeal Court judges said it was in the public interest for them to grant the request.

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