Ex-Guardian journalist tells inquiry of shots

A journalist has described falling to his knees as a soldier deliberately fired a shot at him on Bloody Sunday.

Simon Winchester claimed chinks of masonry were blasted out of the wall above him on the day thirteen men were shot dead in Derry.

He said as he continued to run away from gunfire with a crowd, he heard what sounded like a machine-gun returning the army's fire, but he added it could have been a helicopter.

Then a reporter with the Guardian, Mr Winchester also told the Saville Inquiry how, in retrospect, he was a useful mouthpiece for the army in the days he covered Northern Ireland.