Any review of the events of Bloody Sunday should have an “overriding limitation” that no soldier should be placed in danger of legal action, Mo Mowlam told a cabinet colleague in 1997.
However, the then Northern Ireland Secretary also said she realised it would not be possible to deliver an “absolute guarantee” on such a limitation, newly released Government papers reveal.
Thirteen people were killed in Derry, and another man shot by paratroopers died four months later. Many consider him the 14th victim of Bloody Sunday, but his death was formally attributed to an inoperable brain tumour.
