Bloody Sunday families still suffering distress

THE extended families of those killed on Bloody Sunday are still suffering significant psychological distress, a new study revealed yesterday.

Researchers at the University of Ulster found that as the Saville Inquiry, media coverage and films recreated the events in Derry of January 1972, relatives of the 14 men killed were still suffering the consequences.

The university's School of Psychology also discovered that some of the families' distress was comparable to that of firefighters or South African policemen who had witnessed violence.