A former Northern Ireland government minister is to hand over to the Saville Inquiry a tape recording of what he claims were nationalist celebrations of the Bloody Sunday killings.
Lord Kilclooney (John Taylor), who at the time of the killings of thirteen civilians in Derry's Bogside thirty years ago was Minister of State at the Home Office in the then Northern Ireland government at Stormont, confirmed yesterday that he would be sending the controversial tape to the inquiry, which is chaired by Lord Saville of Newdigate.
A spokesman for the Inquiry said they had not yet received the tape.
"As regards the content of it, until we receive it and the Tribunal has time to consider what is on it, we won't be able to take the matter any further," the spokesman added.
Lord Kilclooney, who gave evidence to the Inquiry two weeks ago, told the hearing that the Bloody Sunday killings were "a great propaganda coup" across the world for nationalists.
Lord Kilclooney, who was critically injured in an Official IRA murder bid several weeks after Bloody Sunday, told the Inquiry that he had a tape to back up his claim.