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A SOLDIER was found guilty yesterday of murdering a colleague in a vicious and brutal attack at their barracks earlier this year.
Lance Corporal Richard Farrell was convicted by majority decision by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court. He was sentenced to 15 years in jail.
Mr Farrell denied killing fellow Royal Irish Regiment soldier, Corporal Geoffrey McNeill in his room at Clive Barracks, Tern Hill, Shropshire in March.
But the prosecution argued that 23-year-old Mr Farrell, from Dublin, had murdered Cpl McNeill by “inflicting a series of heavy blows” breaking the older man’s neck in three places.
Mr Farrell claimed he could recall nothing of the night’s events, saying he had drunk at least a litre of Disaronno liqueur, after having been punched by Mr McNeill in a pub in nearby Market Drayton earlier in the evening.
