DISGRACED former MI5 officer David Shayler claimed yesterday that he was told an IRA informer who alleged Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness told him he fired the first shot on Bloody Sunday was a “bullshitter”.

Disgraced former MI5 officer David Shayler claimed today he was told that an IRA informer who alleged Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness told him he fired the first shot on Bloody Sunday was a “bullshitter”.

A secret service officer said today he was not aware an account he received about Bloody Sunday from an informer he regarded as reliable was nonsense.

SINN FÉIN’S Martin McGuinness has instructed his legal team to play no part in the cross-examination of MI5 agents due to give evidence to the Bloody Sunday tribunal this week.

An informer who alleged he was told the IRA fired the first shots on Bloody Sunday was a brave man and a very valuable agent, it was claimed today.

A former Army intelligence officer who claims he saw documents which show Martin McGuinness did not open fire on Bloody Sunday is to be screened while giving evidence to the Saville Inquiry.

The British army has known all along that Martin McGuinness did not open fire on soldiers on Bloody Sunday, it was claimed today.

The British army operation on Bloody Sunday was an assault on the participants in a civil rights march, it was claimed today.

General Sir Michael Jackson, the British Chief of General Staff, may be forced to cancel his appearance at the Bloody Sunday Inquiry because of war in the Gulf, it emerged today.

The officer commanding paratroopers on Bloody Sunday admitted today it was surprising that two of his soldiers did not inform him they shot two men before he ordered other troops into the nationalist Bogside area.

The officer commanding paratroopers on Bloody Sunday today said that since then he had never thought about what went wrong on the day 13 civil rights marchers were shot dead.

THERE was no secret army plan to seize control of the nationalist Bogside area on Bloody Sunday, the officer in command of paratroopers on that day said yesterday.

The officer in command of paratroopers in Derry on Bloody Sunday today said he did not hear any army shooting before he sent his men into the nationalist Bogside area.

The officer in command of paratroopers in Derry on Bloody Sunday today insisted his men acted professionally when 13 civil rights marchers were shot dead by soldiers.

The officer in charge of the paratroopers in Derry on Bloody Sunday was giving evidence today to the Saville Inquiry into the 1972 shootings.

A former soldier who claimed he shot a nail-bomber on Bloody Sunday told the Saville Inquiry today it was possible he missed his intended target and shot the wrong man.