Inquiry will not question MI5 agent

Updated: 12:36, Monday, 27 May 2002

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry in Derry has announced that an MI5 agent will not have to give evidence to the tribunal because of fears for his life.

The former IRA informer, whose code name is "Infliction", has alleged that Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness had fired the first shot on Bloody Sunday.

Tribunal chairman Lord Saville said they were satisfied that to call the witness would put his life at risk, and would be a breach of his human rights.

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