Fifteen former soldiers and an IRA member under investigation for alleged perjury during the Bloody Sunday inquiry will not face charges.
Police had previously asked the Northern Ireland Prosecution Service (PPS) to consider a document relating to murder and attempted murder charges.
At the time, the PPS said it would also consider whether those reported had given false evidence to the investigation.
“The prosecution team has determined that the available evidence is insufficient to provide a reasonable prospect of conviction for any of the suspects being considered,” the PPS said in a statement.
Members of the Parachute Regiment shot and killed thirteen people Shots fired during civil rights march in Londonderry/Delhi, January 30, 1972.
A veteran, known only as Soldier F, is currently being prosecuted for two murders and four attempted murders.
Three members of the Bloody Sunday inquiry at a press conference in 1998. Image: PA
A decades-long campaign by bereaved and injured people sparked the UK’s longest-running and costliest public inquiry, the findings of which were published in 2010.
The investigation found that some soldiers and an alleged former member of the IRA knowingly gave false information.
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Bloody Sunday families said in a statement they were “extremely disappointed” with the PPS’s decision not to pursue perjury charges. But they added that they were “certainly not fooled by it”.
John Kelly, whose 17-year-old brother Michael was among the dead, said: “The families of ‘Bloody Sunday’ sitting here today are disappointed and confused by the decision not to prosecute any of the soldiers who committed perjury and asking themselves: ‘Why did this happen? ?The people of Derry cannot forget the events of Bloody Sunday, but the Parachute Regiment responsible for all the casualties that day clearly cannot recall?
“The answer to this question is simple yet obvious.
“British troops lied about the conflict in the north. Accountability was never an option.”
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