15 June 2010Last updated at 17:24

In pictures: Bloody Sunday report finally for families

Relatives of those shot dead on Bloody Sunday celebrate outside the Guildhall in Londonderry

Relatives of those shot dead on Bloody Sunday celebrated outside the Guildhall in Londonderry after the long-awaited Saville Inquiry report ruled that all those killed were innocent.

People watch Prime Minister David Cameron on a giant screen making a statement to the House of Commons regarding the findings of the Saville Inquiry into Bloody Sunday, outside the Guildhall in Londonderry.

Crowds cheered as they watched Prime Minister David Cameron deliver the findings - which unequivocally blamed the Army for one of the most controversial days in Northern Ireland's history - on a giant screen.

Mr Cameron said what happened on Bloody Sunday - when British soldiers opened fire on civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland in 1972 - was "unjustifiable" and wrong.

Relatives of the Bloody Sunday victims hold photographs of them in Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Earlier, families of those killed and injured retraced the original route of the march to Londonderry's Guildhall to read the long-awaited Bloody Sunday report.

The Saville Report arriving in Londonderry

Lord Saville's Bloody Sunday inquiry - which cost £195m and took 12 years to complete - had arrived in the city's Guildhall in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Bereaved relatives in Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Bereaved relatives were comforted by Northern Ireland's Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness on the march. Mr McGuinness was also in the Bogside on the fatal day, Saville concluded.

Relatives hold photos of Bloody Sunday victims

As they arrived at the Guildhall to read a preview of the report, families had clutched placards bearing the photographs of their dead loved ones, with the words: "Set the Truth Free".

Kay Duddy holds a handkerchief used to try to staunch the blood from her dying brother Jackie's wounds

Kay Duddy, whose brother Jackie was the first person to be shot dead, said she had carried in her handbag the white handkerchief a priest had used to try to staunch the blood from her dying brother's wounds, "to give her strength".

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In pictures: Bloody Sunday report finally for families

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