Probe into Brit troops who served during Troubles in Northern Ireland unfair, says Minister

CRIMINAL investigations into British troops who served during The Troubles in Northern Ireland must be overhauled, a minister said last night.

It came after an MP had wept in the Commons as he begged the Government to scrap them.

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Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire said inquiries focused too heavily on finding abuses by security forces despite terrorists being responsible for 90 per cent of deaths.

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He called for a new system which ensured “terrorists are not treated more favourably than ­former soldiers and police officers”, The Telegraph reported.

Earlier, the DUP’s Jim Shannon blasted the move to launch new probes while IRA terrorists have walked free, saying it makes it look as if “one life is worth more than another”.

The DUP’s Sir Jeffrey Donaldson claimed the “IRA did not win the war in Northern Ireland but Sinn Fein are trying to win the propaganda war.”
He added that there seemed to be “one rule for those who protect our country, and another rule for those that want to destroy it.”
Tory Sir Henry Bellingham said this was “perverse, wrong and completely unacceptable.”

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He broke down as he recalled the murder of a cousin by the IRA, saying: “There is no ­multi-million-pound investigation for that.”

It comes after The Sun reported all 302 killings by Brit soldiers there over 30 years are to be probed again.