Claim: A British Army veteran who served in Northern Ireland during the Troubles is 54 times more likely than a Republican or Loyalist paramilitary to be prosecuted for alleged offences pre-dating the 1998 Belfast Agreement.
Fact-check: A British Army veteran who served in NI during the Troubles is 54x more likely to be prosecuted? - FactCheckNI
Verdict: inaccurate. prosecutions to date suggest that ex-british army personnel have been the subject of cases five times more than republican and loyalist suspects. the cited ratio of 54 times "more likely" was based on a snapshot of live prosecutions and takes no account of previous cases.
Organisation: FactCheckNI
Author: Unknown
Date published: 2021-07-21T00:00:00