From tv reports yesterday, Connolly did apologize profusely to the family. It seems also that Bigley escaped his ten captors and hid out in the town overnight, only to be recaptured the next morning and then beheaded. Horrible.
I can't find that at all. All I found was a brief article stating that Billy is refusing to apologize for his "jokes":
In another article, he says that the remarks were falsely attributed to him:
Yet, in another article, people were in the audience when he made those remarks: