Prosecutors were today urged to consider bringing charges against soldiers accused of lying to Mark Saville's inquiry into the Bloody Sunday killings.

Protestant church leaders will today make a symbolic visit into the nationalist Bogside to meet with the families of the Bloody Sunday victims.

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry today heard descriptions of a man pleading for soldiers to stop shooting so he could rescue his mortally wounded son only to be shot himself.

One of the Bloody Sunday dead was shot by troops as he ran away - and his father was wounded trying to rescue him, it was claimed today.

Bloody Sunday was described as a ‘‘bad day’s work’’ by a soldier in Londonderry in the hours after the killings, the Saville Inquiry heard today.