Bloody Sunday Page #11

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to hospital.

He's been shot.

You're f***ing up!

Go up against the wall!

Move on!

This one's dying, mate.

Scratch one player.

Ah, he's not carrying, Sarge.

By the f***ing wall!

I won't tell you again!

Stop looking around!

Wait there by the wall!

Do it!

Come on, get through,

get through!

Come on!

All right.

Yeah, Ivan Cooper, MP.

Member of Parliament

for this area.

Ivan Cooper.

Please, I just need

to get through.

I'm calling on the families now.

Where are you going, mate?

Lvan Cooper, Member of

Parliament for this area.

Please, I need to get through.

I've already spoken

to some of your superiors.

You can't go through there,

mate.

I've spoken to your superiors

already.

Please, can you let me through?

Thank you.

I've spoken to your superiors.

I'm a member of Parliament.

Do we have no list...?

You-You have no idea

of casualties yet?

Jesus Christ.

Excuse me.

Excuse me...

Are youse... are you just...

Listen, are you...

How many are in there, Father?

Six here, there's six here.

God Almighty.

There's six here.

Listen, you can't

just leave them

lying like bits of meat here!

There's no room!

Frances, there's

six bodies down there.

I don't know who they are.

None of them are Barney.

- They're not Barney.

- Paddy Doherty?

Excuse me,

I've been in here already.

- I'm a member of Parliament.

- We've been through it already.

There are six down there.

- None of them are Paddy Doherty.

- Not Paddy Doherty?

They're not Barney McGuigan.

That's eight.

Don't know how many there are.

Have you any word

about Michael Kelly?

Michael Kelly?

I'm gonna... I'm trying

to find out all that now.

Michael Kelly.

Ivan, help me find

me brother Jacky.

Who? What's his name?

Jacky who?

Jacky Duddy.

Okay, Jacky Duddy,

Michael Kelly...

Michael McDaid, if you can do

anything about Michael McDaid.

Michael McDaid. I'm trying

to find out, okay?

Dirty bastards!

If you can,

get the numbers down.

Do we have a list yet?

Do we have it?

Kelly, Kelly,

is there an Andy Kelly?

I'm trying to find out, okay.

There's 13 dead...

13 dead.

...14 wounded.

How many?

Are they male or female?

I've the list. I have the list.

Are they male or female?

We're gonna have to start

letting people know.

Everyone take a family

and let them know.

Where are those Duddy girls?

Murdering bastards!

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Look after the Duddy girls.

I'm so sorry.

Oh, no! Oh, no!

Where's that man?

Excuse me, please!

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Michael Kelly's away.

Michael Kelly's gone.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Please, please, please,

please, stay back, stay back.

Show some respect

for the dead, please.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Jesus, Ivan.

What are we gonna do?

My wife...

Those bastards...!

Oh, no...!

No...

They shot my da!

Miss Fuller! Fuller...

Give him a seat, Fuller.

This is a nightmare...

Where the f*** are ya?

Where the f*** are they?

They don't know.

F*** off, would you?

And, uh, uh...

so, I took my brig right

uh, through to Glenfada Park,

uh, to cut off the crowd

and when we got round there,

there was... there was masses.

There was about 100 people

round there.

Uh, straight away,

I saw one guy who looked...

who was about to throw a bomb

in my direction.

Are you sure of that?

Definitely, sir.

Uh, I took immediate action.

I dropped to one knee

and took, uh, a well-aimed shot

to the shoulder

and the-the shot hit the nail...

the guy with the nail bomb,

in the shoulder.

As I came round the corner,

two gunmen shot across me

and I identified, I think

it was a-a short M-1 carbine.

Yeah.

I dropped to one knee,

took three aimed shots.

Petrol bomb was thrown...

landed about ten,

15 yards away from us.

Uh, no one was hurt.

Then there was

a second one already lit.

I shouted to him to stop,

stop, put it down...

fired a couple of shots.

He went down.

Can't say if it...

Fired a couple of shots?

How many shots?

Four, sir.

Four? And you hit him?

Best of my knowledge, sir, yes.

How many rounds did you fire

at him?

Uh, 22, sir.

22 rounds?

Sir.

How did you fire 22 rounds?

That's more rounds

than they issue you with.

Quick, come on...

Move, come on.

Get round this other...

Get round the other side

and tape it.

Quick, before anybody sees us.

Get down there.

Go on, move.

Can we get some explosives

experts over here, please?

Hello, Zero,

this is Four-One Alpha.

We've got suspected nail bombs

at my location.

Send Felix now.

Zero, this is Five-Four Arthur.

Um, one dead person, who was

returned to this location

has a nail bomb in his pocket.

We request Felix to come down

and sort it out. Over.

One round returned

as the gun was spotted there

but no hits claimed. Over.

Where did they come from?

We should go f***ing home.

No problem, no problem.

You're okay, guv.

Lomas, come.

Shut the door behind you.

At ease, Private.

Sit down.

I'm W2 Norton.

This is Sergeant Bridge.

We'll be taking your statement.

CSM is here for your benefit.

In your own words

could you please tell me

exactly what happened?

I could see through

the front of the Pig

that there was a, um,

a rubble barricade

somewhere in front,

at the end of Rossville Street

with about thousands

of people behind it

all screaming and shouting.

We, um, stopped and debussed

just outside the barrier.

I went on to the right-hand side

of the road

opposite the, um, Rossville

flats, which was to our left.

As we were going up

the right-hand side

there was, um, some sort

of commotion on the left

where-where we assumed

a contact had taken place.

Then my, uh,

section commander shouted

that there was a sniper

on the barricade

and, um, he-he-he returned fire.

Private Lomas, did you,

at any time, see the target?

I did, um, swing my rifle

to bear around the corner

of the wall

and that's when we saw

what I believed to be

a- a gunman firing...

holding a firearm

towards our direction.

My platoon commander shouted

that he saw 50

possibly more of the rioters

on the barricade

break right towards

the Glenfada Park area

and ordered my section

to go towards that area

and cut them off.

When we, um, entered the park,

there was a lot of confusion.

We saw a lot of people

and, um, I-I didn't witness

the beginning of the firefight.

At what point was the cease-fire

order given, please?

Before or after the shootings?

The cease-fire was given

after the last shots were fired

in Glenfada Park.

Private Lomas, in your opinion,

were all the rounds fired

in accordance

with the yellow card?

Yes, sir.

Well, of course, the, uh,

the loss of life is, um

is greatly to be regretted,

but I cannot help but think

that we responded to a-a-a

very difficult situation...

and, at least,

Londonderry tonight, uh

would seem to be quiet,

which suggests

that we've moved one step

in the right direction

of the recreation

of law and order.

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