The mother of a Belfast teenager killed by two British soldiers will today meet the former armed forces minister involved in the decision to keep them in the army.
Mrs Jean McBride, whose son Peter was shot dead in 1992, will meet Mr John Spellar, now the Northern Ireland Criminal Justice Minister, at Castle Buildings in Stormont.
Mr Spellar was appointed to the NIO post in June, just hours after the Court of Appeal in Belfast ruled the British army was wrong in its decision to retain the two soldiers convicted of his murder.
Mrs McBride asked for a meeting with Mr Spellar after he was given his new portfolio by Secretary of State, Mr Paul Murphy.
At the time, Mr Spellar confirmed that he was involved in making the decision but said it would not be appropriate to meet Mrs McBride, because of the possibility of further legal action.
However, he has since agreed to a meeting with the McBride family after deciding there was no longer a legal impediment.
Scots Guards Mark Wright and James Fisher were sentenced to life in 1995 for murdering the 18-year-old but were released three years later and allowed to return to their regiment.
He was shot after being stopped and searched by the soldiers while they were on patrol near his home in the New Lodge area of north Belfast on September 4th.
The McBride family have been campaigning to have Fisher and Wright expelled from the army.
The pair were sentenced to life for murder in 1995, but three years later were released from prison and allowed to rejoin their regiments.
The Court of Appeal in Belfast stopped short of ordering the army to dismiss the two soldiers.
Instead, they made a legal declaration that the reasons adopted by the army board were not so exceptional as to permit the retention of the two soldiers.
A dissenting judgment was delivered by the Lord Chief Justice Sir Robert Carswell, who held the board was entitled in law to reach the conclusion.
At their trial, Wright and Fisher said they believed Peter McBride was carrying a bomb.
But the judge found they were lying as they had already stopped and searched him.
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