Saville: Army chief apologises for error

A former Army information chief today apologised at the Bloody Sunday inquiry for saying in the hours after the killings that four of the dead civilians were on a wanted list.

A former Army information chief today apologised at the Bloody Sunday inquiry for saying in the hours after the killings that four of the dead civilians were on a wanted list.

Maurice Tugwell, then Colonel General Staff (Information Policy) at Headquarters Northern Ireland, also said in a statement to the inquiry that he went as an observer to the march in Derry on January 30, 1972, when British paratroopers shot dead 13 unarmed people.

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