Events to commemorate 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday begin

Relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday, 30 January 1972, have begun a walk of remembrance in Londonderry to mark the 50th anniversary.

It is one of a number of events being held in Derry on Sunday.

In 1972, 14 people were shot dead and at least 15 other injured when members of the British army opened fire on a civil rights march. 

Yesterday, Boris Johnson described Bloody Sunday as “one of the darkest days in our history” and said in the run up to the anniversary “we must learn from the past, reconcile and build a shared and prosperous future”.

The former Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, delivered a key note address yesterday in which he labelled plans for an amnesty for Troubles crimes an “outrage”.

Speaking in the Guildhall on Saturday afternoon, Mr Corbyn said it is “an outrage that nobody has been prosecuted for the deaths of 14 innocent protesters”.

“That would be the effect of the forthcoming Amnesty Bill, which would stop any prosecution and investigation, judicial review, inquest or civil case connected with killings that occurred before 1998”.