McGuinness makes Bloody Sunday Inquiry claim

There would have been no need for a Bloody Sunday Inquiry if the British government had admitted its guilt over the role of paratroopers in the deaths of 14 civilians in Derry, Martin McGuinness said today.

The Sinn Féin MP was responding to claims in a book by Jonathan Powell, a former aide to Tony Blair when he was British prime minister, that he told the British government it could have avoided spending millions of pounds on the most expensive judicial inquiry in British history.