Bloody Sunday victim was smuggled across border

A man who was seriously injured on Bloody Sunday, when a canister of CS gas blasted into his face, was later smuggled south of the border for treatment, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

Hugh Heggarty told the hearing in the Guildhall in Derry today that he refused to go into a hospital in the North because he feared being wrongly convicted of rioting and facing a prison term of six months.