Bloody Sunday families call for publication of inquiry into affair

FAMILIES bereaved in the British Army killings on Bloody Sunday yesterday repeated calls for the publication of the inquiry into the affair, as new plans for the report’s eventual release were announced.

Government lawyers are examining the report compiled by Lord Saville on the events of January 1972 when soldiers opened fire during a civil rights march in Derry, killing 14 people.

But while relatives await the report’s release, it was confirmed that the authorities will now allow two members of each family early access to the report on the day of its release, despite initial plans to allow only one relative to read the document in the hours before it goes public.