article_snippet.sent: Sir Frank Kitson, who is 88, is accused in the case of Patrick Eugene Heenan, a Catholic killed by loyalists in 1973.
article_snippet.sent: formerly of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment – described the decision to pursue General Kitson as strange.
article_snippet.sent: General Kitson added: ‘Not only is it a strange case, it worries me that such an action is allowed by the authorities and the Government.
article_snippet.sent: Lieutenant General Sir Edward Burgess (left) claimed loyalist paramilitary gangs were ‘core to the Kitson military doctrine endorsed by the British Army and the British government at the time’.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Frank Kitson may not have been in Ireland when my father was murdered but those who did were working to a template Frank Kitson had developed while in various countries
highlights_snippet.sent: Sir Frank Kitson, 88, accused in 1973 case of Patrick Eugene Heenan, 47 .
  