Ulster Unionist claims report ‘one-eyed’ in its focus

ULSTER Unionist Ken Maginnis accused the Saville Inquiry and the British government of being “one-eyed” in its emphasis on just 13 of the 180 violent deaths in the North in the preceding year.

Mr Maginnis, an Ulster Defence Regiment major from 1970 to 1981, said: “As someone who was on duty on January 30, 1972, I deeply regret the death of 13 people in Derry on that day... But I cannot be as magnanimous or as one-eyed as I feel Saville and indeed, I am sorry to say, this government has been in the way it has received Saville.

“The 13 deaths are regrettable but no more regrettable than the other 167, the other 94% of the people who died that year.”