Soldier sentenced for killing

A judge has called for an inquiry into how a part-time soldier with mental problems was given back a personal protection weapon which he used to kill a man.

Lord Justice McCollum's comments were made as Glen Graham Stronge was sentenced to 12 years for killing Colin Foy, 27, in October 2001.

Stronge, who is a lance corporal in the Royal Irish Regiment, shot Mr Foy in a hotel in Fivemiletown in County Tyrone.

The gun had been taken away from him because of his "detoriating medical history" but Belfast Crown Court heard he found it "straightforward" to request it back.

After shooting Mr Foy in the back of the head and neck as he sat talking with friends in the bar of the Four Ways Hotel, Stronge asked shocked customers did "anyone else want a bit of this?".

He then walked out and took a taxi to nearby Clogher police station, where he gave himself up.

The judge ordered that Stronge, whose address was given as care of his regiment's barracks at The Deanery in Clogher, should serve three years of his sentence on probation.