Bloody Sunday: trial of Soldier F can admit hearsay evidence, judge rules

Prosecution request granted to admit ‘decisive’ statements by other soldiers present at 1972 shootings in Derry

The trial of a former paratrooper charged with two murders and five attempted murders on Bloody Sunday can admit hearsay evidence which has been described by the prosecution as “decisive”, a judge has ruled.

The judge, Patrick Lynch, on Wednesday granted a prosecution request to admit statements made by other soldiers who were present during the shootings in Derry on 30 January 1972.