Court martial proceedings against a British paratrooper cleared of shooting of two joyriders in Belfast in 1990 have been halted.
Sergeant Lee Clegg had faced a charge that he assaulted a junior soldier at a infantry training camp in Harrogate in February last year, his solicitor said today.
Judge Advocate General Paul Camp stopped the proceedings permanently on Monday after they had been "stayed" in April pending final decisions on what should be done.
Sgt Clegg, from Bradford, denied the allegation. "I am relieved and glad that the proceedings are at an end," he said.
Sgt Clegg fired at a stolen car as it failed to stop at a checkpoint in Belfast in September 1990, saying he feared an attack by paramilitaries. He was jailed for life in 1993 for murdering passenger Karen Reilly (18) and wounding the driver, Martin Peake (17), who later died.
He was freed on licence two years later and in March 1999 was cleared of the murder at a retrial. The wounding conviction was quashed in January 2000.