Hume denies passing information to British Army

Former SDLP leader John Hume has denied giving information about IRA arms dumps to the British Army in the months before Bloody Sunday.

Hume denies passing information to British Army

Former SDLP leader John Hume has denied giving information about IRA arms dumps to the British Army in the months before Bloody Sunday.

In evidence to the Saville Inquiry today, Colonel Roy Jackson, a commander in the Royal Anglican Regiment at the time, said Mr Hume passed on the information in August 1971 after he was arrested at an anti-internment protest.

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