Sayle became embroiled in controversy over his investigative reporting into Bloody Sunday , a January 1972 incident in Derry , Northern Ireland , in which 26 unarmed civil rights protesters and bystanders were shot , and 13 killed , by a regiment of paratroopers from the British Army . Sayle and his reporting partner , Derek Humphry , were sent to Derry to investigate the shooting and concluded that the paratroopers had not been fired upon , as they claimed , and that the shooting was the result of a planned special operation to eliminate the IRA leadership in Derry . Four days after the shooting , Sayle and Humphry turned in a 10-page story , but '' The Sunday Times '' refused to publish it . Sayle resigned in protest , and the unpublished story " vanished for a quarter-century . " In 1998 , '' The Village Voice '' obtained a copy of the report and published an article titled " Sunday Bloody Times , " accusing the newspaper 's editor of helping to " bury compelling evidence that the British military planned in advance the infamous 1972 Londonderry attack . " At that time , Sayle reiterated his belief that British soldiers planned the attack on civilians
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday (1972)
Murray Sayle