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Heath was warned on Widgery.
(From Newsletter)
Byline: GAVIN CORDON
MINISTERS in Edward Heath's Tory government were privately warned that the official inquiry into the Bloody Sunday shootings would not satisfy critics of the Army, it was disclosed yesterday.
Papers released to the National Archives under the 30-year rule show that the British Governor in Northern Ireland, Lord Grey, had warned that nationalists were unlikely to accept the findings by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Widgery.
Thirteen people were killed on Bloody Sunday - January 30 1972 - when soldiers from the Parachute Regiment opened fire on a civil rights march in Londonderry.
Lord Widgery's report the following year was condemned by nationalists as a ''whitewash'' after it largely exonerated the Paras saying they had opened fire after coming under attack.
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