Trimble calls for Claudy bombing inquiry
Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has called for a full judicial inquiry, similar to the Bloody Sunday tribunal, into the allegations of a cover-up in the Claudy bombing.
Police have claimed that the British Government and the Catholic Church were involved in a cover-up to shield a priest suspected of heading-up the IRA team responsible for the July 1972 attack on the village of Claudy, Co Derry.
Mr Trimble said: “This is extremely serious, and we expect the police will now follow this up in terms of what they do and their inquiries.
“Isn’t it ironic we have been hearing over the last weeks and months the public inquiry into the deaths of innocent people on Bloody Sunday, which it has been suggested that there was some sort of official cover-up in terms of what happened, and there isn’t?
“Now we’re in a situation where it has been suggested there has been a cover-up of the murder of innocent people in Claudy and I would hope that issue is pursued and inquired into with the same vigour and with the same public result as the Bloody Sunday inquiry.”
