NORTH OF IRELAND:
Background >>
Video / Audio >>
BASQUE COUNTRY:
News >>
Video / Audio >>
Archive >>
Peter Mc Bride deceased September 4 1992 - 20 years on killer remains in British Army 5.9.2012 | Pat Finucane Centre
September 4, marks the 20th anniversary of the murder of Peter Mc Bride in Belfast by two members of the Scots Guards
Regiment, James Fisher and Mark Wright.
Despite their convictions for the murder of the unarmed teenager in broad daylight both soldiers were allowed to rejoin their regiment
having served only three years of their life sentences. One, Mark Wright, was discharged for medical reasons following a shooting
injury sustained in Iraq. The other, James Fisher, remains a serving soldier in the British Army.
As Jean Mc Bride deals with the daily consequence of loss and grief she is confronted with the additional agony that the
British Government, army and large sections of the British media find it perfectly acceptable that the killer of an
unarmed teenager should remain in the British armed forces. No demands in parliament that convicted murderers should be
dismissed, no outrage on the Steven Nolan Show on the BBC as has been the case concerning the employment of others with
convictions for murder, no demands to change the law as some Unionist politicians have campaigned for. Peter who? And Guardsman
James Fisher? No outrage to be heard on behalf of an ordinary working class mother from a Catholic area of North Belfast ...
just silence.
Photo:
Peter Mc Bride
Part of a mural in West Belfast (2004)
Pat Finucane Centre (PFC):
Website: read more >>
Facebook: read more >>
Twitter: read more >>