‘It is justice at last’

A SIMPLE thumbs-up from one of the relatives of a Bloody Sunday victim locked inside the imposing Guildhall in Derry heralded what would be an unprecedented, frank and historic apology from the British Prime Minister, David Cameron.

More than 38 years after British troops opened fire on unarmed civil rights marchers in the city’s Bogside, the mammoth Saville Inquiry report finally affirmed the innocence of the 14 people who died.

The jubilation among the thousands of Derry people who gathered to hear the verdict of the inquiry, the longest in British legal history, was palpable.