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 man today recalled Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness ‘‘recoiling in shock’’ as he was told of the Army shootings on Bloody Sunday.

A group of people huddled in a stairwell in fear for their lives and praying as gunfire echoed outside on Bloody Sunday, 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.