Bloody Sunday relatives and local politicians arrive at Bishop Street courthouse in Derry to hear judge’s ruling
Derry’s MP attended Strand Road police station this afternoon to lodge a protest after police sought to interview him under caution for walking with the Bloody Sunday families to Bishop’s Street courthouse on 25th August this year.
Mr Eastwood walked out after officers failed to meet him.
Said the Foyle MP: “I attended Strand Road police station today at a time pre-arranged with police to lodge a protest with the PSNI after being asked to be interviewed under caution for walking with Bloody Sunday families to court in August.
“I was there to tell them that they should not be hauling victims and their families in for questioning, retraumatising them for walking together to court after 52 years of seeking justice.
“In the week that it was confirmed that someone will finally face a criminal prosecution for the events of that day, this process is an outrage.
“The SDLP has stood with Bloody Sunday families for 52 years.
“I have stood with them all my life – I was with them during the publication of the Saville report, I have been with them the whole way through the process of bringing someone to court and I have stood up for them at Westminster.
“I will be with them until the end of the line.
“This isn’t about me – it’s about a 52 year struggle for justice against the interests of the British state and its agencies.
“These families have had justice delayed and denied for more than five decades. They have had their loved ones taken from them, their names blackened and their campaign whitewashed.
“There is no person and no power that will ever, ever stop us standing with these families in their fight for justice.”
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