Woman ‘saw gunman fire shot on Bloody Sunday’

A witness has told the Saville Inquiry that she saw a gunman fire a shot at British soldiers after they had killed and injured innocent civilians on Bloody Sunday in Derry almost 32 years ago.

Margot Harkin, who was 20 at the time, said she watched the shootings from the Rossville Flats complex in the Bogside.

She told the inquiry that, after a number of people had been shot by British soldiers at the rubble barricade in front of the flats, she saw two young men run into the area and take up a position in Glenfada Park, facing onto Rossville Street.

One of them took a gun from his colleague and fired a single shot at the British soldiers.

"Immediately after this, the gun was thrust back at the other man and they both ran away very fast the way they had come," Ms Harkin said.