A VERDICT is expected any day in an appeal to free Connel man Billy Irving and five other British ex-servicemen imprisoned in India on illegal firearms charges.
In 2013, the MV Seaman Guard Ohio’s 35-strong crew, protecting commercial ships from Somali pirates off the African coast, were arrested for straying into Indian waters with allegedly unlicensed weapons. In January a judge jailed all for five years, despite their pleas of innocence.