Army started Bloody Sunday gun battle: professor

A university professor who attended the Bloody Sunday march said today he knew army claims that the IRA started the gun battles ‘‘this time at least would be a lie’’.

Army started Bloody Sunday gun battle: professor

A university professor who attended the Bloody Sunday march said today he knew army claims that the IRA started the gun battles ‘‘this time at least would be a lie’’.

Professor Bill McCormack also told the Saville Inquiry that a sniper shot was fired from behind a gravestone in Derry’s City Cemetery - about half a mile from the scene of the 13 deaths on January 30 1972.

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