A judgment in the trial of the sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland will be given on October 23, the judge said on Thursday.

The soldier, who cannot be identified and is known as Soldier F, is accused of killing two men and attempting to kill five others when members of a British army regiment opened fire in the mainly Irish nationalist city of Londonderry. He had previously pleaded not guilty to the seven charges and was not called to give evidence during the one-month trial that was heard without a jury.

Bloody Sunday was the deadliest incident of three decades of sectarian violence involving nationalists seeking a united Ireland, unionists wanting to remain part of the United Ki

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