Saville: ‘Pleading father shot by troops’

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry today heard descriptions of a man pleading for soldiers to stop shooting so he could rescue his mortally wounded son only to be shot himself.

Two witnesses Celine Dunleavy and Marie Lynch told day 133 of the inquiry’s public hearings how Alexander Nash called out for help on the rubble barricade across Derry’s Rossville Street where his son William, 19, had been gunned down.