The Bloody Sunday Murder Trial

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today, ‘Soldier F’ a former member of the Parachute Regiment has been found not guilty of murdering two people on Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland in 1972.

The judge, Patrick Lynch, found that the evidence presented fell “well short” of what was needed for a conviction. However, he said that members of the Parachute Regiment had shot dead unarmed civilians and that those involved should “hang their heads in shame”. Adam is joined by Ireland correspondent Sara Girvin, who has been reporting on the trial and the verdict.

Plus, BBC News chief presenter Sumi Somaskanda and Russia editor Steve Rosenberg join Adam to discuss Trump’s new sanctions against Russia, plus cancelling his meeting with Putin in Hungary, and what this all means for the war in Ukraine.

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1:41.4	But first of all, we're going to talk about a very significant trial that has just ended in Northern Ireland. And it ended with a former member of the parachute regiment, known only as Soldier F, being found not guilty of two counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder on Bloody Sunday. Now, that was in January 1972 in London Derry when 13 people were shot dead and 15 others
2:06.6	were injured during a civil rights demonstration in the bogside area of the city of Derry.
2:12.9	This is the only prosecution brought around that event.
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