Bloody Sunday inquiry to hear from 'IRA gunman'

The Bloody Sunday tribunal will reconvene today to hear from a man who allegedly admitted he was a Provisional IRA member who opened fire in Derry’s Bogside on the day British troops gunned down 13 people during a civil rights march.

The Bloody Sunday tribunal will reconvene today to hear from a man who allegedly admitted he was a Provisional IRA member who opened fire in Derry’s Bogside on the day British troops gunned down 13 people during a civil rights march.

Witness “X” has denied telling police that he emptied two magazines from a carbine rifle in the Glenfada Park area of the Bogside on January 30, 1972.

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