Rejected petition To cease any prosecution of servicemen and women based on legacy service.

The blanket pardon issued to all those who committed atrocities in both Northern Ireland and in the UK (Republican and Unionist), was done without mandate from the UK populace. The associated hounding of ex-servicemen for their alleged misconduct is both biased and prejudicial to any moral code.

More details

It is totally disgusting and disgraceful that ex-servicemen and women having served their country loyally and in good faith, are now having to live in fear of profit chasing solicitors assembling legacy evidence of dubious heritage in the false name of 'justice' It must stop. Allow the military courts to deal with any misconduct OR open all unsolved cases of disappearances and murders during the Irish Troubles. It happened, it wa awful, and it's over. Both sides have to move on, both sides.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/165069

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 18 December 2016
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.