Paratrooper lied about shooting dead protester

A FORMER paratrooper revealed yesterday that he lied about shooting dead one of the 13 unarmed civil rights protesters on Bloody Sunday.

Paratrooper lied about shooting dead protester

The soldier, referred to only as INQ 2003, had told a television reporter that he murdered Jack Duddy in Derry on January 30, 1972.

However, giving evidence to the Bloody Sunday inquiry in central London, he agreed that the account was “completely false“.

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