Ex-IRA man's Saville evidence a 'pack of lies'

An ex-IRA man who claimed Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuiness handed out nail bombs on the morning of Bloody Sunday was branded a liar today by his former father-in-law.

Ex-IRA man's Saville evidence a 'pack of lies'

An ex-IRA man who claimed Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuiness handed out nail bombs on the morning of Bloody Sunday was branded a liar today by his former father-in-law.

In evidence to the Bloody Sunday inquiry last year Paddy Ward said Mr McGuiness gave him detonators for 16 nail bombs on the morning of civil rights march, which ended with paratroopers shooting dead 13 civilians on January 30 1972.

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