What was the Widgery inquiry?
What was the Widgery inquiry?
The Widgery Tribunal was the British government’s immediate response to Bloody Sunday. The investigation found no conclusive proof that the dead or wounded were shot while handling a firearm, yet Lord Widgery concluded the soldiers had been fired on first.
How long was the Bloody Sunday Inquiry?
2000. The Bloody Sunday Inquiry opened properly in 2000 when formal public hearings began at the Guildhall in Derry. The Inquiry held public hearings on 116 days over the year, clocking up more than 600 hours of evidence. The vast majority of the evidence was from eyewitnesses.
When did the Saville inquiry start?
The Saville Inquiry was set up in April 1998 and lasted for 12 years. It cost about £200m, making it the longest and most expensive public inquiry in British legal history, and led to then Prime Minister David Cameron apologising to the Bloody Sunday families. He said the killings were “unjustified and unjustifiable”.
What was the outcome of the Saville inquiry?
After 116 days and 600 hours of evidence, at a cost of £200m, Lord Saville’s 5,000-page report concluded that none of the casualties was posing a threat of causing death or serious injury to the British soldiers and, damningly, that some of the paratroopers had lost their self-control.
Who led the Saville inquiry?
Lord Saville
Who led the inquiry? The British Law Lord, Lord Saville of Newdigate, led the three judge panel which sat in Derry’s Guildhall and in London. Public hearings began in March 2000, and the final witness was heard in January 2005.
What happened in Derry and Ballymurphy?
The shootings were later referred to as Belfast’s Bloody Sunday, a reference to the killing of civilians by the same battalion in Derry a few months later….
| Ballymurphy massacre | |
|---|---|
| Date | 9–11 August 1971 |
| Attack type | Mass shooting |
| Deaths | 11 |
| Perpetrator | The Parachute Regiment, British Army |
Is Derry mainly Catholic or Protestant?
Although Derry was originally an almost exclusively Protestant city, it has become increasingly Catholic over recent centuries. At the last (1991) census, the population of the Derry Local Government District was approximately 69% Catholic.
What is meant by Free Derry?
Free Derry (Irish: Saor Dhoire) was a self-declared autonomous Irish nationalist area of Derry, Northern Ireland, that existed between 1969 and 1972, during the Troubles. Its name was taken from a sign painted on a gable wall in the Bogside which read, “You are now entering Free Derry”.
What happened in Derry on Bloody Sunday?
Bloody Sunday, demonstration in Londonderry (Derry), Northern Ireland, on Sunday, January 30, 1972, by Roman Catholic civil rights supporters that turned violent when British paratroopers opened fire, killing 13 and injuring 14 others (one of the injured later died).
