Guards campaign stepped up
The Fisher/Wright Release Group, the British MPs and British
military personnel who are fighting to have the murderers of a
Belfast teenager released, staged a publicity stunt outside the
Northern Ireland Office in London on Thursday 24 July.
The picket was headed by former Tory MP, Norman Tebbit, and ex-
journalist, Martin Bell MP. It is part of an escalating campaign
to have two Scots Guards, James Fisher and Mark Wright, released
from prison. They were convicted of murdering, Peter McBride, in
the New Lodge area of Belfast in 1992. They stopped, questioned
and searched the eighteen year old before chasing him down an
entry and shooting him in the back.
Billy McBride, Peter's uncle, condemned the demonstration as ``an
insult''.
``The politicians who are involved are in it for their own selfish
ends,'' he said adding that ``Martin Bell admitted to us that he
got involved in the campaign without knowing the full facts of
what happened.''
The self-proclaimed `anti-sleaze' MP Bell responded that he had
never made any excuse for the killing. ``I've always said it was
murder but it was murder on mistake,'' he said.
The previous Monday 150 peers in the House of Lords appealed to
the queen to use her prerogative to free the two killers.
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