Two former RUC officers are due to appear at at Derry Magistrates Court this morning charged in connection with an alleged miscarriage of justice in the city over 30 years ago.
Both are to appear at a preliminary enquiry charged with perverting the course of justice in the case of Gerald McGowan, one of four Derry men wrongly accused of killing a British soldier at Abercorn Road in the city in 1979.
Their convictions were formally acquitted 20 years later.
The two former police officers, aged 71 and 64, are charged that on a date unknown between 27 February, 1979 and the 2 March 1979, with intent to pervert the course of public justice recorded a written statement after caution from Mr McGowan which was not his independent account of his involvement in the murder of Lieutenant Steven Andrew Kirby.
At the time of his arrest, Mr McGowan – who was aged 17 – had just signed professional forms with Leicester City FC.
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