'Request for permission for ex-IRA men to give inquest evidence was turned down'

A request to Martin McGuinness seeking permission for former IRA men to give evidence at the inquest of a teenager shot dead by the British army was turned down, a court has heard.

Belfast Coroner's Court was told Danny Bradley, whose brother Seamus was killed by soldiers in disputed circumstances in Derry in 1972, approached the late Sinn Fein veteran asking if IRA members who witnessed the incident would testify at the inquest.