| 翻訳と辞書 |
Tim Spicer
Timothy Simon "Tim" Spicer, (born 1952) is a British former army officer, Ex chief executive officer of the private security company (PSC) Aegis Defence Services. He is a veteran of the Falklands War and also served with the British Army in Northern Ireland. He became well known as an employee of Sandline International, a private military company (PMC) which closed in April 2004.
==Early life and military career==
Born in 1952 in Aldershot, England, Spicer attended Sherborne School and followed his father into the British Army, attending Sandhurst and then joining the Scots Guards. He tried to join the Special Air Service (SAS), but failed the entry course.〔 In 1982, his unit was pulled from Tower of London guard duty and sent to the Falklands War where he saw action at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown.
On 4 September 1992, during the Troubles, two soldiers of the Scots Guards under Lieutenant Colonel Spicer's command, Guardsmen Mark Wright and James Fisher, shot a civilian in the back in Belfast, Northern Ireland. At the subsequent trial, it was heard that 18-year-old Peter McBride, who died at the scene, had been unarmed and not a threat. Immediately following the shooting, the guardsmen were interviewed by Spicer along with three other officers before they were interviewed by police. Spicer later wrote "I thought between us we could reach a balanced judgement on what happened"〔''An Unorthodox Soldier'', by Tim Spicer, Mainstream Publishing, 1999, pp. 121-125.〕 Spicer maintains the same version of events as Wright and Fisher, to wit, that the soldiers believed McBride was about to throw a coffee jar bomb contained in a plastic bag he was carrying.〔''An Unorthodox Soldier'', by Tim Spicer, Mainstream Publishing, 1999, p. 121.〕 despite the fact that McBride had been searched moments earlier by members of the same patrol. The bag was subsequently found to contain only a T-shirt.〔("The murder of Peter Mc Bride" ), Pat Finucane Centre, accessed 7 January 2009.〕 Spicer defended his soldiers even after a jury convicted them of murder 〔(The Telegraph - Guardsmen jailed for murder may stay in Army (25 November 2000) )〕 and the judge sentenced them both to life imprisonment on 10 February 1995. Spicer argued that in the conditions applicable to the incident, Wright and Fisher had legitimately believed their lives to be in peril. Spicer was involved in a successful lobbying campaign which contributed to the British Government's decision to free Wright and Fisher from Maghaberry Prison on 2 September 1998.〔 Each had served one week less than three years seven months in prison for the murder. They were then flown to Catterick barracks in Yorkshire to meet their commanding officer. The following month the Army Board decided that both men could return to their unit and continue their careers in the British Army. The pair subsequently fought in the Iraq War.〔(Belfast court rules on McBride killers ), RTÉ News, 13 June 2003.〕 In the same year that Fisher and Wright murdered McBride, Lt. Col Spicer was awarded the OBE "for operational service in Northern Ireland".〔http://www.aegisworld.com/index.php/tim-spicer〕
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Tim Spicer」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|