Pauline McLaughlin was convicted in 1978 of eight offences including the murder of a soldier in Derry.
A woman jailed for the murder of a British soldier 50 years ago has had her convictions quashed by the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal.
It was contended that she had been convicted without properly scrutinising the reliability of statements of admission or assessing the required criminal intent to commit the offences.The court heard a clinical psychologist concluded before her trial that she was in a “high grade mentally subnormal category”.
“This evidence raises a valid query as to her reliability in terms of standards prevailing in 1977 never mind 2024,” the lady chief justice said.
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