Bloody Sunday hearing: One soldier to be charged over Bloody Sunday killings
One former British soldier will be charged over the murder of civilians during the Bloody Sunday massacre in 1972.
John Kelly, whose brother Michael was shot dead aged 17, said he was "hoping and praying" families will get news of prosecutions. Those entering the hotel shook hands and hugged relatives before leaving them to learn the news from the prosecution service. Thirteen civil rights demonstrators were shot dead on January 30 1972, on one of the most notorious days of the Northern Ireland Troubles.
Soldiers had been sent into the Bogside to deal with riots which followed a Derry march defying a ban on public processions. A decade-long investigation by Lord Saville of Newdigate concluded that the troops killed protesters who posed no threat, and seriously criticised the decision to send them into the Bogside estate in vehicles.
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