Para claims he saw unarmed protesters shot

A former British paratrooper today said he was “baffled” when his fellow paras began firing on Bloody Sunday killing 13 unarmed civil rights marchers.

The radio operator in the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment’s anti-tank platoon on Bloody Sunday is the first of the paratroopers on the ground to give evidence to the Saville Inquiry.