23 October 2025 

Colum Eastwood MP said:

“My thoughts are with the Bloody Sunday families and the wounded today. They have been through a long and challenging ordeal and I can’t imagine how they’re feeling but I know that they are as committed to justice for their loved ones as ever.

"It’s impossible to put into words how proud we are of the Bloody Sunday families. People in Derry, across Ireland, Britain and the world have supported their campaign for truth, justice and accountability for decades. We know that the fight for justice is long and that there will be barriers along the way.

"For more than fifty years, these families have taken on a system that first sought to deny the truth and then tried to run out the clock, desperately hoping that their fight would dim and their campaign would die.

“For the best part of half a century Soldier F has been a protected species. Able and enabled to go about his life while his actions subjected good, innocent people in Derry to decades of generational heartache and hurt. I would encourage everyone to read the report of Lord Saville. These soldiers came to our city, they shot and killed civil rights protestors.

“Today is a difficult day but we’re holding the families close and I know that the people of Derry will continue to give them our utmost support.”