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Well it is only 38 years since I watched this brutal spectacle on my tv but 38 years after it happened and after, wait for it, a 12 year inquiry, the Bloody Sunday Deaths are at last to be ruled unlawful
Bloody Sunday killings to be ruled unlawful | UK news | The Guardian
The long-awaited report into the Bloody Sunday massacre will conclude that a number of the fatal shootings of civilians by British soldiers were unlawful killings, the Guardian has learned.
Lord Saville's 12-year inquiry into the deaths, the longest public inquiry in British legal history, will conclude with a report published next Tuesday, putting severe pressure on the Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland to prosecute soldiers.
Lord Trimble, the former leader of the Ulster Unionists and one of the architects of the Good Friday agreement, revealed to the Guardian that when Tony Blair agreed to the inquiry in 1998, he warned the then prime minister that any conclusion that departed "one millimetre" from the earlier 1972 Widgery report into the killings would lead to "soldiers in the dock".
Bloody Sunday killings to be ruled unlawful | UK news | The Guardian