British army 'planned shootings to lure IRA'

The most senior police officer in Derry told a businessman that the British army decided to shoot civilians to lure the IRA into a gun battle on Bloody Sunday, it was claimed today.

Brendan Duddy said that Chief Superintendent Frank Lagan gave him the information on the morning after 13 unarmed civilians were shot dead during a civil rights march in the city’s Bogside area.