Bloody Sunday Families

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Ciarán Shiels of Madden & Finucane Solicitors this evening said:

"£4.3 million is the price the public have already paid because of Soldier F's perjury at the Bloody Sunday Tribunal.

"Judge Pat Lynch KC, in his 60 page written ruling acquitted Soldier F on all 7 charges before a Belfast Diplock Court last week.

"Within his scathing judgment, the Trial Judge twice held that Soldiers H and G committed perjury before the Widgery Inquiry. Soldier H subsequently also committed perjury before the Bloody Sunday Inquiry (Soldier G was deceased and did not appear before Lord Saville).

"All military witnesses and all witnesses who gave evidence concerning their memberships of either wing of the IRA on Bloody Sunday, received a specific assurance from the Attorney General that as long as they told the Bloody Sunday Tribunal the truth about what happened, regardless of how many civilians they murdered, or criminal offences they committed, they had the cast iron guarantee they would never face police interviews under caution, or a trial process that hung over their heads for approximately 7 years.

"However no soldier who was involved in firing rifles at civilians that day, in fact told the truth about Bloody Sunday to the Saville Tribunal. Lord Saville concluded as much in his findings.

"This is an obscene amount of public money being used to defend a multiple murderer and attempted murderer and to ensure that he never would face justice for his criminality.

"There is an ingrained culture of mendacity that has pervaded for generations right through the British Army.

"£4.3 million in legal fees would appear to be the going rate for the Ministry of Defence to happily pay out, when ensuring an important serial killer never sees the inside of a prison cell.

"This is the reward for his perjured evidence to an International Tribunal of Inquiry."