No plot to kill innocent civilians, says Carrington

CLAIMS that there was a top-level plot to shoot innocent people on Bloody Sunday are “ridiculous”, a former British defence secretary has said.

Lord Carrington, 83, who is testifying to the Bloody Sunday inquiry in London, is the most senior politician to give evidence so far.

The tribunal is investigating what happened on January 30, 1972, when paratroops opened fire on civilians at a civil rights march in the Bogside in Derry killing 13 civilians. Another man died later.