Sinn Fein chairman gives evidence at inquiry

Sinn Fein chairman Mitchel McLaughlin has claimed a soldier made "a serious effort" to blow his head off on Bloody Sunday.

Sinn Fein chairman gives evidence at inquiry

Sinn Fein chairman Mitchel McLaughlin has claimed a soldier made "a serious effort" to blow his head off on Bloody Sunday.

Giving evidence to the Saville Inquiry, he compared the British Army gunfire in Derry on January 30 1972 with a turkey shoot and said at one point he thought his father had been shot in front of him.

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