Saville: Man ‘heard soldier boast about killing’

A man who claims he heard a soldier boasting that he shot one of the Bloody Sunday victims in the head said today he could not identify him because of the passage of time.

Saville: Man ‘heard soldier boast about killing’

A man who claims he heard a soldier boasting that he shot one of the Bloody Sunday victims in the head said today he could not identify him because of the passage of time.

Hugh O’Boyle told the Bloody Sunday Inquiry that he could not pick out any of the Paratroopers he saw in Derry’s Bogside on January 30, 1972 when 13 civil rights demonstrators were shot dead.

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