Bloody Sunday paras 'may have had post-traumatic stress'

Paratroopers who opened fire killing 13 civilians on Bloody Sunday may have been suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, a journalist who spent time with them beforehand claimed today.

Michael Stark, chief reporter on a newspaper in the Parachute Regiment’s home base of Aldershot in 1972, told the Saville Inquiry of a weekend visit to the Ist Battalion of the Paras in December 1971 when he witnessed ‘‘manic’’ behaviour.