Northern Ireland

Bloody Sunday soldier 'dead'

Thirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 and another died later. Picture by Pacemaker
Thirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 and another died later. Picture by Pacemaker Thirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday in January 1972 and another died later. Picture by Pacemaker

PROSECUTORS considering bringing charges against ex-paratroopers over Bloody Sunday have been told one of the soldiers has died.

A solicitor for the soldier, known as Soldier N, last week informed the Public Prosecution Service (PPS) of his death.

In an email received by some of the Bloody Sunday relatives, the PPS said it “received word last week from Soldier N’s solicitor that Soldier N had recently died”, the BBC reported last night.

“We don’t have any reason to doubt the information we’ve been given but I had directed the police to get some formal proof of that (a death certificate) and was waiting on that before alerting the families,” the PPS said.

Thirteen people were shot dead when members of the Army’s Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Derry in 1972. A fourteenth person died later.

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