10 years sinceCaldwell killing

TODAY marks the tenth anniversary of the Real IRA murder of Waterside man David Caldwell.

The former Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier was killed when he picked up a booby trap lunchbox filled with explosives at the Limavady Road Territorial Army (TA) base on August 1, 2002.

Mr Caldwell was the last Protestant from the city to have been murdered by republicans.

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The Army said the base was being refurbished at the time and was no longer being used for security operations. It was mainly used for training young people in the Cadets at the time of the killing.

An Army spokesman called the murder “an outrage, a despicable cowardly attack on an innocent civilian and should be condemned by all law-abiding people.”

Although the Real IRA later claimed they planted the bomb no-one has yet been convicted of the crime, A number of people have been arrested in connection with the killing,

The PSNI believe they know who carried it out. In 2003 Detective Inspector Robbie Paul said: “It’s our belief that the Real IRA carried out this murder.

“We believe that we have a fairly good intelligence picture of how this murder was carried out, and by whom. But unfortunately intelligence is not evidence.”

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