No bid to change soldiers' stories, says lawyer

A former British army lawyer today denied pressure was put on Bloody Sunday soldiers to change their evidence about the killings.

No bid to change soldiers' stories, says lawyer

A former British army lawyer today denied pressure was put on Bloody Sunday soldiers to change their evidence about the killings.

Lieutenant Colonel Colin Overbury told the Saville Inquiry sitting in London there was no cover-up launched to help the paratroopers who shot dead 13 unarmed men on a civil rights march in Derry on January 30, 1972.

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