Loyalist cleared on murder charge
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North Belfast loyalist William "Mo" Courtney is acquitted of murdering a former associate of UDA leader Johnny Adair.
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A doctor who admitted hastening the deaths of two dying babies is cleared of misconduct.
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A Dutch court has acquitted a marine of criminal negligence in the fatal shooting of an Iraqi civilian last year.
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Convicted loyalist leader Johnny Adair is released from prison in Northern Ireland and flown to Manchester.
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Police and prosecutors study the implications of the Omagh bomb trial after a man is cleared of all charges.
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A defence QC is cleared of making sectarian comments at a Rangers' supporters club in Northern Ireland.
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A FRENCH couple were cleared yesterday of allowing a drunk friend to drive from their house shortly before he killed himself and four people in a road accident.
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LONDON, Dec. 20 -- A judge in Belfast on Thursday acquitted the only person ever charged with murder in the 1998 bombing in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh, which killed 29 people in the bloodiest attack of the province's three decades of sectarian violence.
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A man accused of fox hunting in the Scottish Borders is acquitted - in a test case for Scotland's anti-hunt laws.
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A court cleared an Israeli holidaymaker who had flown into Britain saying he had forgotten he had a loaded pistol in his hand luggage.
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Jury in Rome clears all defendants accused of murdering 'God's banker' Roberto Calvi.
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A former taxi driver is cleared of murdering nursery nurse Elizabeth McCabe in Dundee 27 years ago.
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Charges have been dismissed against the former commander of a detention facility where an Iraqi prisoner was dragged by the neck and later died.
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Demands that Ronnie Flanagan be held to account after man is acquitted of charges
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A judge on Thursday cleared a 38-year-old man of all charges in connection with the 1998 Omagh bombing, which killed 29 people in what was Northern Ireland's worst atrocity in 30 years of violence.
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A loyalist double murderer is to be freed from prison after a review board recommended his release.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe  - A court in Zimbabwe Friday  convicted the British leader of an alleged coup plot against  the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea on weapons  charges, but acquitted most of the 69 other men held with him.