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06/11/2008
Saville Report Delayed - Again
The Bloody Sunday report will not be completed until autumn 2009, the Chairman of the inquiry has revealed.
The long-awaited Saville Inquiry's report into what led to 13 people being killed after paratroopers opened fire during a civil rights' march in Derry in January 1972 will now be held back until this time next year.
The Inquiry had been due to deliver its completed report this autumn.
Lord Saville now says the previous indication of the timescale necessary to complete the report "was a substantial underestimate".
The report was to be finished by the end of the year and published in early 2009.
In response, Northern Ireland Office Secretary Shaun Woodward said he was "surprised and disappointed".
He said he shared the "understandable concerns" of families and others about the cost of further delay, adding that the Northern Ireland Office would be meeting Lord Saville's team "as a matter of urgency".
SDLP Leader and Foyle MP Mark Durkan (pictured) said: "Obviously Lord Saville has to give the weight and scale of the evidence involved diligent consideration, and the families and others who participated in the inquiry have confidence in him in that regard."
(BMcC)
The long-awaited Saville Inquiry's report into what led to 13 people being killed after paratroopers opened fire during a civil rights' march in Derry in January 1972 will now be held back until this time next year.
The Inquiry had been due to deliver its completed report this autumn.
Lord Saville now says the previous indication of the timescale necessary to complete the report "was a substantial underestimate".
The report was to be finished by the end of the year and published in early 2009.
In response, Northern Ireland Office Secretary Shaun Woodward said he was "surprised and disappointed".
He said he shared the "understandable concerns" of families and others about the cost of further delay, adding that the Northern Ireland Office would be meeting Lord Saville's team "as a matter of urgency".
SDLP Leader and Foyle MP Mark Durkan (pictured) said: "Obviously Lord Saville has to give the weight and scale of the evidence involved diligent consideration, and the families and others who participated in the inquiry have confidence in him in that regard."
(BMcC)
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