Former General says Blair wrong to apologise for Bloody Sunday

The former commander of land forces in the North, General Robert Ford, says the British Prime Minister Tony Blair was wrong to apologise for the killings of 14 people on Bloody Sunday in Derry.

General Ford says when Mr Blair announced the Bloody Sunday inquiry in 1998, he had jumped the gun in saying the dead were innocent of any allegation they were shot while handling guns or explosives.