"The defendant was part of a small group of soldiers who moved west from Rossville Street into that courtyard. At the far end, civilians, fearful of the approach of the soldiers, began running across the courtyard towards a gap at one of the corners in order to escape. As they did so, soldiers acting together, and therefore with joint responsibility, opened fire with their self-loading rifles shooting at the civilians as they ran away."
"It has taken 53 years to get to this point, and we have battled all the odds to get here. Everything that we have achieved to this point has been through relentless commitment and a refusal to lie down."
Soldier F, a former lance corporal, faces charges of two murders and five attempted murders for shootings during Bloody Sunday in Derry on 30 January 1972. The charges relate to Parachute Regiment actions that killed 13 civilians and wounded others, with a possible 14th victim dying months later. The non-jury trial is being heard by Judge Patrick Lynch and the defendant has anonymity under a court order. The prosecution focuses on shootings in a Glenfada Park courtyard where soldiers allegedly fired on civilians fleeing through a gap. Relatives described the trial as momentous after decades of campaigning.
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