Bloody Sunday families ‘will not grieve’ for former army head

Chair of the Bloody Sunday Trust Tony Doherty said “there will be no grieving the loss of this man” by the Bloody Sunday families.

“He wreaked havoc in Derry and elsewhere in the 1970s… there will be no mourning here,” he added.

In addition to the 13 people killed on Bloody Sunday, at least 15 others were injured.

Bloody Sunday is widely regarded as one of the darkest days of the Northern Ireland Troubles.

In 2010, the then Prime Minister David Cameron, made a public apology to Bloody Sunday victims following the publication of the findings of the Saville Inquiry.

In 2003, Gen Jackson gave evidence to the inquiry in relation to how he wrote a note regarding what soldiers said about why they had fired.

Saville said that the circumstances under which the list was compiled were “far from ideal”.

But the report added: “We accept Captain Jackson’s evidence of the purpose for which the list was initially prepared; and find nothing sinister in the fact that it did not include details such as the names of the soldiers and the number of rounds fired.”