Jude Collins  Saturday, 21 April 2012  Westminster Abbey - home
of the brave?  John Kelly is angry. His brother Michael was
killed on Bloody Sunday in Derry and he’s now heard that a
commemorative stone is to be erected in Westminster Abbey to the
late Ted Heath, prime minister at the time.  Kelly says “I
personally hold Ted Heath – the political master of the British
armed forces in 1972 – among those ultimately responsible for
the murder of my brother on Bloody Sunday. To memorialize him in
any way is both sickening and contemptible”.  You can understand
Kelly’s outrage. Think of a family member of your own. Now think
of someone  deliberately shooting them dead, and then imagine
the person ultimately responsible for the killing being honoured
as a national hero. You’d be angry too.  But that’s what
Westminster Abbey does – it puts up statues and memorials to
those it considers great in British terms. You won’t find Oliver
Cromwell there – they originally buried him in the Abbey, but
when the monarchy was re