McGuinness ‘lied to Saville Inquiry’

SINN FÉIN chief Martin McGuinness was accused yesterday of lying to the Saville Inquiry when he claimed he sought permission from a family to give the whereabouts of an IRA safe house on Bloody Sunday.

On the final day of oral evidence at the inquiry, the leader of the Provos in Derry in January 1972 said the house at Stanley’s Walk in the Bogside, where members of the IRA met in the aftermath of the shootings, was now derelict.

Asked if he was putting anyone in danger by pointing out the location of the house, the former OC, known as PIRA 24, said: “Not at all.”