The respondents wished to interview the claimants, former paratroopers, as to their involvement in the ‘Bloody Sunday’. They resisted being obliged to return to Northern Ireland for interview saying that they fully intended to make no comment replies, and that the risk of such a return was disproportionate.
Held: ‘we grant an order prohibiting the PSNI from arresting the claimants in order to interview them under caution in relation to the events of 30 January 1972 upon the claimants undertaking to the court that they will attend for an interview under caution (and remain for the duration of that interview) to be carried out by the PSNI at a police station in England or Wales (or other acceptable location to the Defendant in England or Wales) in relation to the events of 30 January 1972.’
John Thomas LCJ, Openshaw, Carr JJ
[2015] EWHC 3691 (Admin)
Bailii
England and Wales
Police, Armed Forces
Updated: 08 January 2022; Ref: scu.557140