North’s Public Prosecution Service explains its decision on Bloody Sunday prosecutions
The North’s Public Prosecution Service explained why just one former British paratrooper – Soldier F – is to be prosecuted in connection with Bloody Sunday while several other ex-soldiers found by Lord Saville’s inquiry to have been involved in the shootings are not to be charged.
Soldier F and Soldier H were found by Lord Saville’s 2010 report into Bloody Sunday to have been responsible for these casualties. The PPS ruled that there were no evidence capable of proving that Soldier H fired upon entering Glenfada Park North, when the six victims were shot, “other than his own inadmissible accounts”. Therefore there was “no reasonable prospect of conviction” of Soldier H.
The paratroopers linked by Lord Saville to the killing of Jackie Duddy and the wounding and injuring of six others in the car park at the front of the Rossville flats were Soldiers N, O, Q, R, S and V. Here the PPS said a “fundamental difficulty in relation to this sector was in attributing responsibility for the various casualties to particular soldiers”.
Here Soldier F was reported to have been connected to the killing of Michael Kelly, brother of John Kelly one of the main campaigners and spokespeople for the Bloody Sunday families. The PPS found that there was “no admissible and credible witness evidence that Soldier F fired at the rubble barricade” notwithstanding that the bullet recovered from Michael Kelly’s body was linked to a rifle used by Soldier F.
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