Bloody Sunday: justice has no time limit
There is nothing political at all in pursuing the needs of justice: this is a simple legal matter, which must take its course – and justice must never become the hostage of time.
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It’s nearly half a century since one of the darkest days in Northern Ireland’s Troubles.
Soldiers from the Parachute Regiment will find out if they are to be prosecuted for the deaths of 14 people in the Bloody Sunday massacre.
A former soldier is arrested on suspicion of murdering three civil rights demonstrators in Londonderry on Bloody Sunday in 1972.
There is nothing political at all in pursuing the needs of justice: this is a simple legal matter, which must take its course – and justice must never become the hostage of time.
A new police inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings in Northern Ireland 40 years ago will involve a team of 30 detectives. But there are concerns that it will be under-resourced.
The Ministry of Defence is preparing to pay compensation to relatives of those killed or injured by soldiers on Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland.
Martin McGuinness has snapped out a “no” when questioned after the Saville report publication about whether he was carrying a gun on the day of Bloody Sunday. I was at his evidence sessions in Derry in 2003 and he was repeatedly asked about that. At the time, from memory, I think he replied “rubbish.”
If there were to be criminal prosecutions for any British soldiers, and Lord Saville’s report indicates certain candidates, those individuals would have to re-testify under the original terms of the tribunal.
You might think that the Bloody Sunday inquiry was used to break a deadlock, avoid a republican walk-out. Unionists and Tories have told me just that. Someone who was a very senior British official at the time tells me it was nothing of the sort.
After successfully battling to defend the identity of his sources, Alex Thomson, chief correspondent at Channel 4 News, reflects on his part in Bloody Sunday inquest.
As Lord Saville’s inquiry into Bloody Sunday gets set to report, Carl Dinnen looks at what it could hope to achieve 38 years after the event.
We spoke to Lord Saville of Newdigate, the former justice of the Supreme Court, who chaired the public inquiry into Bloody Sunday.
We spoke to John Teggart, of the Ballymurphy families’ campaign for truth and justice, and Mickey McKinney, from the Bloody Sunday families’ campaign in Derry.
He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his leadership of Nato forces in the Kosovo War and headed the British Army during the invasion of Iraq. But back in 1971 General Sir Mike Jackson was a captain in the Parachute Regiment serving in Belfast, with specific responsibility for press relations. And today he gave evidence at…
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