Badenoch apologises after Bloody Sunday footage used in post defending UK veterans

Members of the parachute regiment shot 26 people during an anti-internment march in Derry on 30 January 1972, killing 13. A fourteenth man died of his injuries four months later. Photograph: Keystone Press/Alamy

Kemi Badenoch has apologised after footage from Bloody Sunday was used in social media posts criticising a bill on legacy issues in Northern Ireland.

The Conservative leader said on Saturday that she did not sign off on the use of a clip from the massacre, in which British soldiers opened fire on unarmed civil rights demonstrators in Derry, and that it was distributed by “very young people”.