Mickey McKinney, brother of William McKinney, says he blames the UK for the prosecution failure. Photo: AP PHOTO

A Belfast court has found a British soldier not guilty of murder in the only trial of a member of the UK armed forces over the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland.

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The United Kingdom government in 2010 apologised for the "unjustified and unjustifiable" killings, when members of the army's elite Parachute Regiment opened fire in the mainly Irish nationalist city of Londonderry in one of the defining moments of Nort

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