Doubt over colonel's Bloody Sunday claims

A senior British army officer may have been mistaken when he said that former SDLP leader John Hume informed him about terrorist activity in the Bogside, the Bloody Sunday Inquiry was told today.

Lord Saville, the inquiry chairman, said that a telephone call from the retired Bishop of Derry, Dr Edward Daly, had thrown doubt over the claims made yesterday by Colonel Roy Jackson, the commanding officer of one of Northern Ireland’s resident battalions on Bloody Sunday.