Move to halt Bloody Sunday and Daniel Hegarty death prosecutions ‘devastating’

SDLP leader Colum Eastwood said the decision to drop prosecutions against two soldiers was ‘devastating’ for the victims’ families 

Nationalist politicians in Northern Ireland have described the decision to stop the prosecution of two former soldiers over three Troubles deaths as “devastating” for the victims’ families.

The Public Prosecution Service has announced that the case against Soldier F for the murder of James Wray and William McKinney on Bloody Sunday in Londonderry in 1972 will not proceed.