Paratrooper Lee Clegg was freed yesterday, despite being sentenced to four years' imprisonment for shooting a teenager in a stolen car in Belfast. Having already spent four years in custody, on remand and after his original sentence in 1993, he was not returned to jail. Clegg (30), was acquitted at a retrial in March of murdering Ms Karen Reilly (18) who was a passenger in the car which was fired on by soldiers when it went through an army checkpoint in west Belfast in 1990.
But he was again convicted of the attempted unlawful wounding with intent of Mr Martin Peake (17), the driver of the car who was also shot dead.
His lawyers have lodged an appeal against his conviction.