DETECTIVES from the PSNI’s Serious Crime Branch are to start interviewing British soldiers in the coming weeks over the Bloody Sunday murders of 14 unarmed civilians in the Bogside.
The news has been delivered to families of the Bloody Sunday victims in a letter from a senior police officer involved in the investigation.
John Kelly, whose 17-year-old brother Michael was shot dead on Bloody Sunday in 1972, said the PSNI have now told relatives that the England-based interviews about the ‘Bogside Massacre’ will start next month.
Seven British soldiers won a judicial review at the end of last year in the High Court in London to prevent the PSNI coming to England, arresting them and bringing them back to Northern Ireland for interview.
The court ruled they should be interviewed in England.
In November last year, a former British Paratrooper was arrested and questioned at Musgrave PSNI station
Now in a letter to families, the PSNI say: “Given the number of interviews to be held and the location of same in GB, it is likely that they will extend over a number of months.”
The news comes as families prepare to commemorate the 44th anniversary of Bloody Sunday this weekend, January 30.
The annual memorial Mass takes place this evening St Mary’s Church in the Creggan.
The Mass will be followed by a lecture to be delivered by SDLP Foyle MP Mark Durkan.
There will be a wreath laying ceremony at the Bloody Sunday monument on Sunday followed by the Bloody Sunday march later that day.
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