‘Soldier F’ is the only person from the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment ever to face trial for the deaths of 13 civil rights protesters and one passer-by in Londonderry in January 1972.
Hundreds of protesters descended on Westminster to demonstrate against the prosecution of ‘Soldier F’ over the Bloody Sunday massacre.
He is charged with the murder of William McKinney, 27, and 22-year-old James Wray, and the attempted murder of four other men – Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon and Patrick O’Donnell.Hundreds marched through Whitehall The Saville Report, an inquiry set up by Tony Blair in 1998 and which published its findings in 2010, also found ‘Soldier F’ to have killed two other men – Bernard McGuigan, 41, and 31-year-old Patrick Doherty.
Mr Wragg, who served with the Royal Transport Corp for 10 years, said: ‘I got more and more enraged by it and I made a Facebook video saying we need people to come together and show this is wrong because so many people don’t know.’ The unidentified veteran, known only as ‘Soldier F’, is the only person from the 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment ever to face trial for the deaths
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