'I thought they were rubber bullets - until boy died'

A man told today how he believed the Army was firing rubber bullets on Bloody Sunday, until he saw a youth lying dead that day.

A man told today how he believed the Army was firing rubber bullets on Bloody Sunday, until he saw a youth lying dead that day.

Patrick McKeever described watching the young victim fall to the ground in the car park of Derry’s Rossville Flats and realising: "It was quite clear the boy was beyond redemption."

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