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

The British government in 2010 apologised for the "unjustified and unjustifiable" killings, when members of a British army regiment opened fire in the mainly Irish nationalist city of Londonderry in one of the defining moments of Northern Ireland's recent history.

But all efforts to prosecute soldiers have failed.

The soldier, who cannot be identified legally and is known as Soldier F, was found not guilty of killing two men and trying to kill five others when members of a British army regiment opened fire in the mainly Irish nationalist city of Londonderry.

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