Liam Holden was waterboarded and tortured by British army, Belfast high court rules

Estate awarded £350,000 including damages for inhumane and degrading treatment

In 1973 Liam Holden was convicted of murdering a British soldier in Northern Ireland and became the last person in the United Kingdom to be sentenced to hang.

On Friday – half a century after the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, 11 years after the sentence was quashed and a year after Holden died – a high court in Belfast awarded £350,000 to his estate.