'MI5 agent fears for his life'

An MI5 agent who claimed Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness fired the first shot on Bloody Sunday will not have to give evidence to a tribunal of inquiry because of fears for his life, it was announced today.

Infliction, an IRA informer, alleged Mr McGuinness, now education minister in the power-sharing Northern Ireland government and MP for Mid Ulster, told him he had fired the first shot on January 30, 1972 when 13 civilians were killed by Paratroopers in Derry.