LONDON (AP) — A lawyer for the only British soldier charged in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre said Thursday that prosecutors failed to prove murder and attempted murder charges, as he urged a judge to acquit the former paratrooper.

Defence lawyer Mark Mulholland said in his closing argument that the case against Soldier F was “fundamentally flawed and weak” because of unreliable evidence from “fabricators and liars.”

The former lance corporal, who has not been named to protect him from retaliation, was the only British Army member ever charged in the Jan. 20, 1972 shooting that killed 13 and wounded 15 civil rights demonstrators in Londonderry, also known as Derry.

Mulholland rested his case without his client testifying and without presenting any evidence, choosing instead to attack t

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