Relatives were joined by supporters close to the scene of the shootings in Derry’s Bogside ahead of a march to a city centre hotel.
Families of those killed on Bloody Sunday gathered in Londonderry to march this morning as 17 soldiers involved on the day waited to find out if they are to be prosecuted.
Kay Duddy, the sister of Bloody Sunday victim Jackie Duddy, stands with relatives and supporters of the victims of the 1972 Bloody Sunday killings Families of the victims walk through the Bogside before the announcement Linda Nash and campaigner Eamonn McCann react after the announcement of the decision As the march approached the hotel the families began singing We Shall Overcome, an anthem of the civil rights movement.
While Lord Saville said it was probable that he was in possession of nail bombs when he was shot, he stressed that he was not preparing to throw a nail bomb at the time and was shot 'while trying to escape from the soldiers'.The first to be killed on Bloody Sunday, he was running away when he was shot in the chest in the car park of Rossville Flats.The talented footballer and ardent Liverpool fan was hit with a single shot as he ran away from the rubble barricade in Rossville Street.
He died four months later in hospital, but while many consider him the 14th victim of Bloody Sunday, his death was formally attributed to an inoperable brain tumour.
The deaths of 13 innocent civil rights demonstrators in Londonderry almost half a century ago helped galvanise support for the Provisional IRA early in the Troubles
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