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15/06/2010
Saville Inquiry Findings Read By Journalists
Just hours after the lawyers for the families of those killed and injured on Bloody Sunday entered Derry's Guildhall to spend the morning studying Lord Saville's report on the events, a select number of journalists are now getting first sight of the report.
Two journalists from each registered media organisation are at Derry's City Hotel for the hour long 'pre-read' and will be locked in the building with a 60-page summary of the report for exactly one hour.
The lawyers representing the soldiers involved were also this morning able to study the massive document - again on disc - in London.
The shootings were among the most controversial of all the bloody events in the Northern Ireland's decades of conflict.
Thirteen people died in 1972 when British soldiers opened fire on civil rights marchers in Londonderry.
This morning's preview and the Press 'pre-read' come just just ahead of the PM's statement in the House of Commons and full publication at the same time. The Saville Report cost £195m and took 12 years to complete.
See: Reg Slams Inquiry
(BMcC/GK)
Two journalists from each registered media organisation are at Derry's City Hotel for the hour long 'pre-read' and will be locked in the building with a 60-page summary of the report for exactly one hour.
The lawyers representing the soldiers involved were also this morning able to study the massive document - again on disc - in London.
The shootings were among the most controversial of all the bloody events in the Northern Ireland's decades of conflict.
Thirteen people died in 1972 when British soldiers opened fire on civil rights marchers in Londonderry.
This morning's preview and the Press 'pre-read' come just just ahead of the PM's statement in the House of Commons and full publication at the same time. The Saville Report cost £195m and took 12 years to complete.
See: Reg Slams Inquiry
(BMcC/GK)
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