Bloody Sunday victims cleared of being armed

BLOODY SUNDAY victims have finally been cleared of false findings that they were armed when soldiers opened fire, a barrister said yesterday.

Arthur Harvey QC also launched a withering attack on military chiefs and the Westminster Government he blamed for letting out-of-control troops on the streets of Derry in January 1972, when 13 civil rights marchers were shot dead.

As Lord Saville’s £155 million (€232m) tribunal began a new session, he accused the army of giving false evidence.