Bloody Sunday Inquiry to resume hearings

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry will resume sittings in Derry'sGuildhall tomorrow morning for the first time since it was adjourned…

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry will resume sittings in Derry'sGuildhall tomorrow morning for the first time since it was adjourned last February.

Lord Saville of Newdigate, who is chairing the inquiry, has head evidence into the killing of the thirteen unarmed civilians killed by paratroopers on Bloody Sunday on January 30th, 1972, from a total of 919 witnesses over a period of 427 days.

This phase, the penultimate of the inquiry, is expected to last until June 18th.

During this period oral submissions will be made on behalf of the various parties.

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They include legal representatives of the next of kin of the dead, lawyers for the fourteen civilians wounded and  lawyers for the paratroopers and police officers present on that day.

The legal teams have now lodged their final submissions to the Inquiry.

Over the next two weeks, those submissions, made on behalf of seventeen separate interested parties, will be debated before the Inquiry, which is  sitting in Derry's Guildhall.