Sunday 20 January 2019

ON THIS DAY IN 1981, CORBYN'S MATES...

The Provisional IRA shot dead a British soldier in Londonderry as his foot patrol were closing the city gates.  Pte Christopher Shenton was hit in the back by one of up to a dozen shots fired by the sniper.  One of his colleagues was wounded.  The terrorists escaped in a hijacked car.

The 21-year-old was serving with the 1st Battalion Staffordshire Regiment and came from Stoke-on-Trent.  No-one was ever convicted of Pte Shenton's murder.

Castle Gate, Londonderry, scene of the attack