A FORMER paratrooper said yesterday he fabricated his original eyewitness account of the Bloody Sunday shootings that put soldiers in a positive light.

A former paratrooper said today he fabricated his original eyewitness account of the Bloody Sunday shootings that put soldiers in a positive light.

A former Army information chief today apologised at the Bloody Sunday inquiry for saying in the hours after the killings that four of the dead civilians were on a wanted list.

A man told today how he believed the Army was firing rubber bullets on Bloody Sunday, until he saw a youth lying dead that day.

An RUC man who dealt with a complaint from a man arrested by troops on Bloody Sunday was himself murdered in a bomb attack almost a year later, the Saville Inquiry heard 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.

A soldier who shot and injured a widowed mother-of-14 on Bloody Sunday cocked his rifle again afterwards - but walked away when she pleaded with him, the Saville Tribunal heard today.

The shot which killed teenager Jack Duddy on Bloody Sunday may have been a ricochet, a witness has told the Saville inquiry into the shootings.

Sinn Fein chairman Mitchel McLaughlin is one of a number of people who claim to have been the target of one of the first shots of Bloody Sunday, it has been alleged.