Provos did not fire but Official IRA did, inquiry told
Gerry “Mad Dog” Doherty, who was jailed for 15 years for a number of terrorist offences, including a bomb attack on the Guildhall in June 1972, told the Saville Inquiry that the Provisionals did not fire on the day that 13 unarmed civilians were shot dead by members of the Parachute Regiment.
The ex-paramilitary, who was a 17-year-old IRA volunteer in the Bogside at the time of Bloody Sunday, said that orders were given by his section leader not to take action during the civil rights march in January 1972. “It was made clear that we were not to do anything and that meant no engagements. It followed that there would be no access to weapons or explosives,” he told the inquiry.
