The decisions relate to 15 former soldiers and one former alleged member of the Official IRA.
Sixteen people will not be prosecuted over allegations of giving false evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, the Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland has said.The PPS has said there was no reasonable prospect of securing a conviction in the cases.
Following the inquiry, the Police Service of Northern Ireland submitted an investigation file to the PPS in relation to allegations of murder and attempted murder against a number of people.One soldier, known as Soldier F, is facing prosecution accused of two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday.
PPS senior public prosecutor John O’Neill said: “All decisions on whether or not to prosecute are taken by independently and impartially applying the test for prosecution.“For a conviction, the prosecution must establish beyond a reasonable doubt, through available and admissible evidence, the commission of a criminal offence by the suspect.
– The full amount of evidence upon which the Bloody Sunday Inquiry based its findings is not available to prosecutors.
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