Former British soldier arrested in connection with Bloody Sunday investigation

A former British soldier is being questioned by detectives investigating the deaths of three civil rights demonstrators in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

The 66-year-old ex-paratrooper, detained in Co Antrim yesterday, was the first person arrested by detectives probing the deaths of the 14 people killed after the Parachute Regiment opened fire on crowds of protesters in the Bogside in January 1972.

It is understood the pensioner is being questioned about the deaths of William Nash, 19, John Young, 17, and Michael McDaid, 20, all of whom were shot dead in close proximity to one another at a rubble barricade on Rossville Street.