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

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.

A Bloody Sunday paratrooper today said that his colleagues fired without justification.

A man yanked his brother-in-law to safety from the scene where three men were shot dead on Bloody Sunday, the inquiry into the shootings heard 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 former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier admitted today seeing a ‘‘civilian’’ gunman on Bloody Sunday and saying nothing about it in a statement at the time.

A soldier predicted that "lots of bodies would leave the Bogside" on the afternoon of the Bloody Sunday killings, the Saville Inquiry has heard.