Soldiers cleared over IRA 'banter' and attacking Muslim colleague
soldiers have been cleared of racially abusing their Northern Irish colleague after claiming jokes about him being an IRA terrorist were just “boisterous banter”. Scottish Household Cavalry troopers Declan Coutts, 22, and Maxwell Nicholls, 24, were also acquitted of attacking a Muslim colleague in the Windsor regiment, which is traditionally responsible for guarding the Queen.