Belfast was losing security role - Bloody Sunday inquiry

Prominent Ulster Unionist Lord Kilclooney said today that responsibility for security in Northern Ireland was ‘‘slipping away’’ from Belfast to Westminster at the time of Bloody Sunday.

The peer, formerly known as UUP MP John Taylor, was telling the Saville Inquiry about his role as a minister in the old Northern Ireland government in the run up to the January 1972 atrocity when British troops shot dead 13 unarmed civilians in Derry.