Bloody Sunday soldier 'predicted high body count'

A soldier predicted that "lots of bodies would leave the Bogside" on the afternoon of the Bloody Sunday killings, the Saville Inquiry has heard.

Bloody Sunday soldier 'predicted high body count'

A soldier predicted that "lots of bodies would leave the Bogside" on the afternoon of the Bloody Sunday killings, the Saville Inquiry has heard.

Thomas Columba Doherty claimed the comment was passed by a soldier, who was smiling, a short distance from the scene of the shootings that day.

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