Bloody Sunday victims told only one case can be prosecuted

Fourteen people were shot dead on Sunday 30 January 1972 by British paratroopers at a peaceful civil rights march in Derry.

Families of the Bloody Sunday victims have been left angry and upset after Crown Prosecutors claimed today there is sufficient evidence to prosecute only one the seventeen soldiers known to have been involved in the Bloody Sunday massacre.

Fourteen people, half of them teenage boys, were taking part in a civil rights march in Derry when they were shot dead by British paratroopers on January 30, 1972. A further 22 innocent civilians were injured.

Many of the families who emerged from this morning's meeting with the prosecutors were visibly upset.

Earlier the relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday gathered at the memorial in the Bogside to walk together to the city centre, where the meeting took place. They carried before them placards bearing the names and faces of their loved ones, and a single word: Justice.

Nine years ago, they made that same walk ahead of the publication of the Saville Report, which found none of the victims had posed a threat when they were shot. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron then issued a famous apology for the slaughter.