Police-killings comments: Karen Bradley tells rtenews she didn't believe what she said yesterday: 'I never intended to cause hurt, upset or distress or to give anyone the impression that I believe what I said.'
THE UK’S NORTHERN Ireland Secretary Karen Bradley has repeated her apology for saying that the deaths caused by soldiers and police during the Troubles “were not crimes” – adding that she didn’t believe what she said.
“The language was wrong and even though this was not my intention, it was deeply insensitive to many of those who lost loved ones. Media reports in the past week have indicated that four ex-British soldiers could be charged with the 1972 shooting of unarmed marchers in Derry on Bloody Sunday.Tánaiste Simon Coveney was asked in the Dáil today by Fianna Fái’s Dara Calleary to address Bradley’s comment, which he himself described as “absolutely callous and completely out of order and totally inappropriate”.
He said her comments caused “intense” concern, distress and hurt for families whose loved ones were killed.
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