A Bloody Sunday survivor has told a court how he played dead while a British Army soldier allegedly murdered an unarmed civilian lying on the ground.
Joe Mahon was 16 when soldiers from the Parachute Regiment opened fire on civil rights demonstrators in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in January 1972.
Now in his 70s, he gave evidence today at the trial of a veteran known as Soldier F, who is accused of the murders of James Wray and William McKinney and five counts of attempted murder in relation to the notorious Troubles flashpoint.
Thirteen civilians were killed by soldiers during the rioting. Soldier F, now also in his 70s, is the only man to face criminal charges in relation to the incident.
Sitting in an area traditionally reserved for the jury as Soldier F, whose identity is protected for fear of reprisals listened from behind a curtain in the witness box, Mr Mahon said when a soldier fired two shots into a man lying prone on the ground, he allegedly said to a comrade: ‘I have got another one.’
