evidence: This claim is not accurate. Prosecutions to date suggest that ex-British Army personnel have been the subject of cases five times more than Republican and Loyalist suspects. The cited ratio of 54 times "more likely" was based on a snapshot of live prosecutions and takes no account of previous cases. [...] The legal firm representing Mr Hutchings, McCue and Partners, was reported in the Telegraph in February 2020 to claim: "A former soldier is 54 times more likely to be prosecuted than a republican or loyalist terrorist". This claim was repeated in the News Letter article. [...] The legal firm’s calculation (6/361 vs 1/3,264) gave the figure of 54, suggesting an estimated ratio of ex-British Army soldiers being prosecuted 54 times more than those associated with Republican and Loyalist paramilitary groups.