Some soldiers did benefit from the Good Friday Agreement early release scheme, but ironically they were the so called "bad apples" who carried out crimes on behalf of either the UVF or the UFF, so therefore came under the aegis of the 1998 Northern Ireland Offences Act.
The author of the report into the Southall collision published on Thursday, Professor John Uff, said that he believed that there was still "a long way to go" to sort out "inherent problems" in rail privatisation.