Clegg legal bid dismissed
Moves by Paratrooper Lee Clegg's lawyers to restrict the
prosecution case at his re-trial for the 1990 murder of
18-year-old Karen Reilly were dismissed by Lord Justice
MacDermott at a pre-trial hearing last Wednesday 25 June.
Clegg's lawyers had argued that the judge hearing his November
re-trial should be bound by the findings of the original trial
that were in favour of Clegg, and that these could not be
challenged. But MacDermott dismissed the arguments as ``unreal''.
He described it as an attempt to ``put new wine into old bottles''.
Clegg was convicted following the murder of Karen Reilly,
17-year-old Martin Peake and the wounding of16-year-old Markewicz
Gorman. He subsequently served only two years of a life sentence
following a high profile campaign backed by the British
establishment and was promoted after rejoining his regiment.
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