Bloody Sunday soldier describes coming under fire

A former British soldier today described how he came under fire after entering Derry’s Bogside on Bloody Sunday.

The lance corporal, of Company C in the First Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, said the shots were fired from a Thompson sub machine gun – a weapon known to have been used by the IRA in the 1970s – as he was running across waste ground with two other members of his platoon.