A British army vehicle that hit a teenager on Bloody Sunday tried to ram her a second time, the inquiry into the shootings heard today.
Witness Mr Frank Campbell also told the tribunal, chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate, that British troops were driving deliberately towards civilians when they came into Derry's Bogside on January 30th, 1972.
"I was amazed how under the rule of law people could do this sort of thing," Mr Campbell said from the witness box in Derry's Guildhall. "If one of the Saracens [armoured personel carriers] hit you then you would be dead. To me that isn't justice."
Mr Campbell, who was a youth worker at the time of Bloody Sunday, said he saw Ms Alana Burke knocked down deliberately by one of the vehicles in the car park of the Rossville Flats. Ms Burke, then 16 years old, survived and testified to the inquiry earlier this year.
Mr Campbell said: "She was hit first and then the Saracen drove at her again and that is when I caught her and ran with her behind the wall."
Mr Campbell also claimed that after the shootings people who carried black flags outside the Bogside - then a no-go area for security forces - were arrested.
"It was as if you were not allowed to show any sympathy. Afterwards people were stunned and angry. It takes a lot for me to get angry but I was very angry," Mr Campbell said.
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