Identities of soldiers still not clear, probe told

THE identities of the soldiers who killed 13 civilians and wounded 14 others on Bloody Sunday are still not clear, the inquiry into the events more than 30 years ago was told yesterday.

Despite an inquiry lasting more than seven years at an estimated cost of €220 million, it was not known which Parachute Regiment soldiers had carried out the majority of the shootings in Derry, counsel to the Saville Inquiry Christopher Clarke said in his closing statement.

“It has to be said that, even after many days of evidence, the answer to even the first question - Who shot them? - is not, on the soldiers’ evidence, in any way clear,” Mr Clarke said.