The Saville Inquiry in Derry has heard evidence about the first shootings by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday. A 15-year-old youth was wounded, before the Parachute Regiment operation in the Bogside began. Several eyewitnesses said that the injured youth, Damien Donaghy, was carrying nothing in his hands immediately before, or at the moment he was shot.
Counsel for the Inquiry said earlier that there was no unanimity of evidence about where exactly where Damien Donaghy, the first casualty of the day, was shot. 15-year-old Mr Donaghy, along with a 59-year-old shopkeeper, John Johnston, was shot and wounded by British Paratroopers before the soldiers moved into the Bogside area to conduct an arrest operation. Later Mr Clarke said that, according to a body of evidence, youths had been throwing stones or bottles at soldiers in a derelict building from which Corporal A and Private B had earlier said that they had fired shots.
