Saville files and orders 'do not match'

Official documents recording the orders given to the Bloody Sunday paratroopers to enter the Bogside do not match the events on the ground, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

Saville files and orders 'do not match'

Official documents recording the orders given to the Bloody Sunday paratroopers to enter the Bogside do not match the events on the ground, the Saville Inquiry heard today.

A Lieutenant Colonel who was a watchkeeper at an operations room at Ebrington Barracks on Bloody Sunday said any verbal orders would immediately have been written out precisely.

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