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Northern Ireland spycops revelations raise Bloody Sunday questions
A soldier stands by as a firefighter fights a blaze after 14 unarmed civilians were killed in Derry by the British army on January 30 1972
A LEADING campaigner has called for the Undercover Policing Inquiry to extend its scope to cover the activities of spycops in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.
The ongoing inquiry in London recently released the cover name of an officer from the Metropolitan Police’s special demonstration squad (SDS) who infiltrated the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA).
“Sean Lynch” also spied on the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, the Irish Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign and Sinn Fein in London between 1968 and 1974.
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