Mahmoud Bazzi, who was convicted of killing Irish soldiers Derek Smallhorne and Thomas Barrett in 1980, was released after serving 8½ years of 15-year sentence
Irish soldiers, Privates Derek Smallhorne and Thomas Barrett, were murdered on April 18th, 1980, while serving with a United Nations mission in the country.Bazzi was released on July 31st but the Smallhorne and Barrett families were only told of his release this week. The Department of Defence has been seeking to confirm reports of the Lebanese man’s release.
On this basis, Bazzi’s early release means that his sentence was, in practical terms, reduced by the court of appeal of Beirut by two years and nine months. Bazzi murdered the two Irish men to avenge his brother who had been killed in a firefight with Irish and Fijian forces that became known as the Battle of At Tiri.
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