Appeal for reluctant witnesses to come forward

Relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday and the surviving casualties of the day later stepped into the wranglings about IRA activity with a public appeal for all reluctant witnesses to come forward immediately.

They were ‘‘saddened’’ that some were resisting the approaches of the Inquiry and maintained they wanted the whole truth ‘‘even its unpalatable aspects’’, said Arthur Harvey QC, speaking for all the next-of-kin of the dead and those injured that day.