Bloody Sunday Inquiry Day 361General Sir Michael Jackson, Chief of the General Staff, may be recalled to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry to explain the background of a secret army document which relates to the killings of 13 unarmed civilians in Derry on January 30th, 1972.
He has submitted a fresh statement to the inquiry following the disclosure that the controversial document was in his handwriting.Previously, the document had been attributed to Major Ted Loden, who was commander of the unit of the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment responsible for the 13 deaths and for the woundings of 13 other civilians on Bloody Sunday.
Major Loden told the inquiry prior to it being adjourned last June that the so-called "shot list" document, which referred to 15 separate engagements with armed civilians, was drawn up by him. He said he had interviewed the paratroopers involved in the engagements in the rear of a Saracen armoured car in the immediate aftermath of the Bogside shootings.
However, at the resumption of the inquiry yesterday after the summer recess, barrister Mr Michael Mansfield, who represents several victims' families, said the original handwritten notes of what the inquiry had been calling the "Loden shot list" were discovered by a soldier in an army camp in Derry five years ago.
Mr Mansfield said the soldier who found them made copies for himself and tried to send them to a relative. He told the inquiry's three judges that the tribunal should find out more about the soldier, how he found the controversial handwritten document and why he was trying to send copies of the document to someone else.
When General Jackson gave his evidence to the inquiry last April, he said he had no memory of taking part in the interviewing process with paratroopers.
The inquiry resumes this morning.
