Ex-Para set to give evidence at Saville inquiry

A former paratrooper whose rifle fired the shot which killed a teenager on Bloody Sunday, is expected to give evidence at the Saville Inquiry today.

“Soldier F”, who was a lance corporal in the anti tank platoon, is the only soldier whose rifle has been forensically-linked to the death of one of the 13 civilians shot dead during a civil rights march in Derry’s Bogside in January 1972.