DUBLIN (AP) — An Irish Republican Army veteran charged with the IRA killing of four soldiers in London’s Hyde Park in 1982 has been freed from custody after a judge ruled that the British government misled the man into thinking he could travel to England without fear of arrest.

London High Court Justice Nigel Sweeney found that Britain’s Northern Ireland Office in 2007 provided John Downey with a confidential document promising him he was not wanted for any outstanding IRA crimes.

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