Maxwell Nicholls and Declan Coutts said jokes about colleague being IRA terrorist were ‘boisterous banter’
Two soldiers in the Household Cavalry have been cleared of racially abusing a colleague from Northern Ireland after claiming jokes about him being an IRA terrorist were “boisterous banter”.
The troopers, Maxwell Nicholls, 22, and Declan Coutts, 24, were also acquitted of attacking a Muslim colleague at their barracks in Windsor.
