Witness accused of conspiring to concoct evidence

Questioning of a retired policeman at the Bloody Sunday inquiry was halted by chairman Lord Saville today after a lawyer accused the witness of conspiring with another officer to concoct evidence.

Former Constable Robert Carson was challenged by junior counsel Fiona Doherty, acting for families of some of the Bloody Sunday victims, that evidence he gave of cars ramming a barricade on January 30, 1972 was either identical or strikingly similar to that of another officer - that both accounts were at variance with other witnesses.