`  :::Show us where in the sources it says he ``was beaten by british soldiers and required 47 stitches``. It says no such thing and you know it. Note that the other piece One Night in Hackney re-instated was apparently an implication that IRA beatings resulting in confessions were justified. Note to all admins; this is the belief system we are dealing with here. There is no liberalism, no discussion of ideas, none of the bedrocks on which Wikipedia is built - apparently in the Republican vision of Wikipedia, confessions produced by torture are fine and believable!  `