Paratrooper may have been 'muddled' over shots

A paratrooper today said he could have been mistaken about hearing 15 to 20 shots being fired at paratroopers before they entered the Bogside on Bloody Sunday.

A paratrooper today said he could have been mistaken about hearing 15 to 20 shots being fired at paratroopers before they entered the Bogside on Bloody Sunday.

The anonymous paratrooper, identified only as Lance Corporal 366, was driver for Colonel Derek Wilford, the commander of 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment on January 30, 1972.

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