Bloody Sunday: 'IRA gunfire' witness to testify

The Bloody Sunday tribunal is to reconvene later this month to hear evidence from a man known as Witness X, it emerged today.

Witness X has denied telling the police in 1972 that he was a member of the Provisional IRA and fired two magazines from a carbine rifle in the Glenfada Park area of the Bogside on Bloody Sunday.

The hearing will take place on January 27 at a video conference room at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.

Witness X will give his evidence by video link and will be screened from view to protect his anonymity.

The hearing will be transmitted to the Guildhall in Derry, where the tribunal heard most of the evidence.

Late last year, Lord Saville and fellow judges retired to write their final report, which is expected to be completed by this summer.