Liam Holden was waterboarded and tortured by British army, Belfast high court rules
by Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6A4WA)
Estate awarded 350,000 including damages for inhumane and degrading treatment
In 1973 Liam Holden was convicted of murdering a British soldier in Northern Ireland and became the last person in the United Kingdom to be sentenced to hang.
On Friday - half a century after the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, 11 years after the sentence was quashed and a year after Holden died - a high court in Belfast awarded 350,000 to his estate.
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