'Gunmen in Bogside' on Bloody Sunday, says rioter

A man who says he saw three of the Bloody Sunday victims shot beside him also claims there were up to three gunmen in Londonderry’s Bogside that day, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

'Gunmen in Bogside' on Bloody Sunday, says rioter

A man who says he saw three of the Bloody Sunday victims shot beside him also claims there were up to three gunmen in Londonderry’s Bogside that day, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

Donal Deeney alleged he saw two men with firearms and learnt later of a sniper in the district where 13 Catholic men were shot dead when Paratroopers opened fire following a civil rights march in 1972.

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