McGuinness faxes statement to inquiry

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness today faxed a draft statement to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry about what he was doing that day.

Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness today faxed a draft statement to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry about what he was doing that day.

The move followed weekend revelations that the leading republican, now the Northern Ireland Education Minister, was preparing to tell the tribunal he was the IRA's second-in-command in Derry that day.

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