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.

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry today heard more accounts of paratroopers firing from the hip at the scene where six of the 13 men killed that day were shot.

A witness wept today as he described cries and groans coming from an Army Saracen vehicle where the body of a Bloody Sunday victim had been thrown by "laughing" paratroopers.

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.

Personal effects including cash belonging to one of the teenagers killed on Bloody Sunday have never been recovered, the man’s brother said 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.