UDR soldier 'saw civilian gunman'

A former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier admitted today seeing a ‘‘civilian’’ gunman on Bloody Sunday and saying nothing about it in a statement at the time.

UDR soldier 'saw civilian gunman'

A former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier admitted today seeing a ‘‘civilian’’ gunman on Bloody Sunday and saying nothing about it in a statement at the time.

Bernard Gillespie said he saw the seven or eight people arguing with the assailant who he spotted behind a fence in the minutes after the first two casualties were shot by troops on the fringe of Londonderry’s Bogside.

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