RUC target Bloody Sunday relative
By Ned Kelly
John Wray from the Bogside in Derry, whose brother Jim was killed
by British Paratroopers on Bloody Sunday, has claimed that a two
year campaign of RUC harassment against him has reached new
depths.
Wray claims that several months ago two uniformed RUC men
approached him in his own home and said they wanted to `meet' him
and that his family were vulnerable to loyalist attacks. He
claims that over the last couple of weeks the same men have
stepped up this campaign. Wray, who is studying at the local
`tech, said he started to see the same two men dressed in
civilian clothes on the route he used to travel to and from his
studies.
Then last Wednesday 17 June, as he walked to the `tech for an
exam one of the RUC men approached him and said, ``we need to talk
to you, you really need to talk to us. You are still not safe
yet, you need to take your family into consideration.'' The RUC
men then said, ``you have to talk to us, you are hanging around
with people in Sinn Fein circles.''
After the incident, Wray said, ``they have intimidated me and put
me under pressure. They are playing with people's lives.'' He will
now pursue a formal complaint via his solicitor.
Sinn Fein councillor, Mary Nelis said, ``in the week that a
commission is tasked with investigating the future of policing,
the RUC once again demonstrates its inability to function as an
impartial policing service.''
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