Saville Inquiry reaches milestone
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28/01/2008
Lord Saville’s investigation into Bloody Sunday reaches a major milestone tomorrow. It is 10 years since it was officially created, however, it is still dogged by delays and huge costs.
Families of the Bloody Sunday dead, though, say they are prepared to wait another 10 years if it means getting the truth.
It is a decade exactly since the then Prime Minister Tony Blair went before Parliament to order a new inquiry under Lord Saville.
A decade later, 10 years have come and gone, Tony Blair has come and gone and the Inquiry has come and gone.
This is by far the biggest inquiry in UK legal history, a huge amount of material, an army of lawyers and more than 900 witnesses over seven years of hearings.
Much has been made over the £170million price tag of the Inquiry and although the families believe the investigation was worth the time and the money, they are bracing themselves for still more delays.
Even early drafts of the report may be pushed into court and subjected to judicial review.
The longest running inquiry in UK legal history may yet have some way to go.
