Trimble calls for Claudy bombing inquiry

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has called for a full judicial inquiry, similar to the Bloody Sunday tribunal, into the allegations of a cover-up in the Claudy bombing.

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has called for a full judicial inquiry, similar to the Bloody Sunday tribunal, into the allegations of a cover-up in the Claudy bombing.

Police have claimed that the British Government and the Catholic Church were involved in a cover-up to shield a priest suspected of heading-up the IRA team responsible for the July 1972 attack on the village of Claudy, Co Derry.

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