The mother of paratrooper Lee Clegg is writing a book about the campaign to clear her son's name.

Wynne Johnson, 55, of Lidget Green, who said she always believed her son was innocent of killing a Belfast teenager, also revealed that the soldier kept diaries of his experiences.

"Who knows, maybe we can combine the two," she said.

Corporal Clegg, 30, is now based at Catterick Barracks after he was acquitted at Belfast Crown Court of the murder of 18-year-old Karen Reilly in 1990.

Mrs Johnson said: "I know that my son is not a murderer, and it has been proved so."

She began writing the book, which has no title yet, after being persuaded by friends to undertake the task. She has completed 14 chapters in the nine months since then.

"Obviously there were lots of things going on behind the scenes which we could not talk about, but now we can.

"When I started writing it was like reliving it all over again.

"I am no novelist but when I started

it just began to flow, because I knew what I was writing was the truth."

Mrs Johnson, a customer service assistant at Leeds Bradford airport, said the book starts from the time Clegg joined the Army at the age of 20.

"I never wanted him to join the Army and I only wished that he had listened to me. But he had set his heart on it.

"The hardest part of the book so far was when I wrote about the day after Lee had been unjustly convicted.

"I went with his former wife Amanda to the Army pay office to see what she was entitled to. It was just humiliating. No one spoke to us but they all knew who we were. Eventually we were taken somewhere private and we got it sorted."

Mrs Johnson recalls that when Clegg was convicted of murder in 1993 family members were all crying around her - but she had no tears.

"I was so adamant that he was innocent, I just phoned our legal adviser Simon Mckay from a phone box and wanted to know what could we do.

"Only then did I break down and me and my husband Jack just cried in the phone box that night," she said.

Mrs Johnson paid tribute to the constant support of the people of Bradford through the long legal process.

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