He said that the autopsies showed Mr Wray was first paralysed by a bullet in the legs, then killed by a shot in the back.
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"My first instinct was to wish I had a rifle, although I wouldn't have known how to fire it," he said. He tended two injured men, then tried to help Gerard McKinney, William McKinney, Jim Wray and Michael Kelly, who died from their wounds. When youths began rioting in William Street, he heard sharp cracks, which he recognised as live fire rather than rubber bullets. He was worried to see so many soldiers in battle dress. Dum dum bullets, which are apparently softened to create more tissue damage, were banned in 1933 by the Geneva convention."ĭr McClean, a member of the Derry Citizens Action Committee at the time of Bloody Sunday, had sought assurances from political representatives of the IRA that the Provisionals would not become involved in a peaceful civil rights demonstration. I'm aware it is possible to make nicks in a bullet which will cause it to tumble in the air, causing more damage on impact.
He said events in the city's Bogside on Janugave the Provisional IRA a massive recruitment boost, with people queueing to join in the days after the shootings.ĭr McClean, who observed some of the postmortem examinations, told the hearing in Derry's Guildhall: "It is possible the bullets were tumbling or softened. Raymond McClean, a founder member of the SDLP and later the mayor of Derry, told Lord Saville's inquiry that larger than usual entry wounds in some of the victims suggested the use of "dum dum" bullets. Bullets used by paratroopers to shoot 14 unarmed men on Bloody Sunday may have been adapted to inflict maximum injury, a doctor who tended several of the wounded and dying said yesterday.
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