Heath denies 'browbeating' Widgery

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath today denied that he tried to browbeat the chairman of the original Bloody Sunday Inquiry into exonerating the British soldiers who carried out the killings.

Heath denies 'browbeating' Widgery

Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath today denied that he tried to browbeat the chairman of the original Bloody Sunday Inquiry into exonerating the British soldiers who carried out the killings.

Mr Heath, 86, said there was nothing sinister in his warning to Lord Widgery, who chaired the original inquiry, that Britain was locked in a propaganda as well as a military war in 1972.

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