Mr. John Teggart:

I thank Stephen for his kind words and, as always, he supports the families.

It is true that prosecutions should still on the table. After 50 years people think that there is not much hope. I think that after 50 years, like our campaign, there is hope because there is new evidence. There have not been many cases where there has been no investigation at all, as has been said during the day here. We investigated ourselves. We went on foot, knocked on doors and found the evidence ourselves. We brought that forward to Mr. Ó Muirigh to legalise and the statements are with the Attorney General. So there is hope even after 50 years but it is the kind of thing that the British Government wants to close. The British Government is disrespectful, as has been said.

We must remember who the UK Government is trying to represent and support. They are actually murderers and they are people who have committed crimes. Our loved ones were entirely innocent of crimes. The UK Government is trying to shield the people who committed these crimes from families and the families from them, because these people wore a uniform.

Our story has been told here today and we must remember everybody no matter who it is. All of these families shed the same tears at the funerals of their loved ones. All of these families have the same hurt and are affected in every way.

If one looks at what the parachute regiment alone did, twelve months after Ballymurphy there was Bloody Sunday. Eleven months later people went to the Shankill and murdered Richard McKinney and Robert Johnston. This was an elite force who should not have been on the ground in the first place. Ms Briege Foyle, in her statement on the day, said that parachute regiment should be disbanded. When soldiers are deployed on the ground in communities in the North then it is a military force, especially a combat force like the parachute regiment. None of this should have happened and these murderers should not be shielded by any government.