Soldier 027 paused frequently as he gave evidence today at the Bloody Sunday inquiry

Soldier 027, who is giving evidence to the Saville Inquiry in London, recalled that on Bloody Sunday his platoon moved in south down Rossville Street in armoured vans after getting the go-ahead from Major Ted Loden, Commander of the Support unit.

The first of the Bloody Sunday paratroopers was today giving evidence into the killing of 13 unarmed men on a civil rights march on January 30, 1972.

One of the Bloody Sunday paratroopers today described the shootings 30 years ago as “unjustified”.

A former Army Paratrooper who has claimed in a TV programme he opened fire in Derry’s Bogside on Bloody Sunday was named today by the judges re-investigating the shootings.