Relatives of the Bloody Sunday dead give their reaction to the acquittal of Soldier F in his trial for murder at Laganside Courts in Belfast, on Thursday October 23 2025. Video by Ben Lowry, editor of the Belfast News Letter
00:00No issue without further delay. We have a trial judge, one of the most experienced trial judges in the jurisdiction, has held a few agents of Soldier H and the public prosecution service simply have got no further excuse to hold up the prosecution of Soldier H. That's where we go from here.
00:20Can I just ask one question about Soldier H? Have you any right to appeal today's verdict at all? What's the situation?
00:29No, there's no right to appeal.
00:32So, do you think that the Soldier F case is now over?
00:39What we saw was a fraction of the charges that Soldier F should have faced.
00:46Soldier F was at trial for less than half of the murders and attempted murders that he committed on bloody Sunday.
00:54He stood trial on a sliver of the evidence that once was available to be used and induced in relation to him by police.
01:07By police, by police, personally had to be interested. The DPP, who turned a blind eye, not just to the bloody Sunday case, between 1970 and 1974, 188 Irish civilians were shot dead by the British Army.
01:22In relation to each and every one of those shootings, none of those soldiers based on RUC or a police investigation, none of them.
01:33And in relation to each and every file that went to the DPP, a blind eye was turned because they could have directed the RUC to go and interview these people on their questions.
01:45It didn't happen once, it didn't happen once, and there was a shameful indictment, not just the police force, but also a prosecution, a prosecuting authority, and it's supposed to be civilised.
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