Sir Mike was a captain in the Parachute Regiment at the time

The Chief of General Staff, General Sir Mike Jackson, appeared for further questioning at the Saville Inquiry on Wednesday.

The inquiry, currently sitting in London, is examining the events of 30 January 1972 when 13 civilians were shot dead by soldiers during a civil rights march in Londonderry. Another man died later from his injuries.

The tribunal made the decision to recall the general after it emerged in June 2003 that some documents produced by the Army following Bloody Sunday were written by him.

One of the documents was a list of targets which Parachute Regiment soldiers claimed to have fired at on Bloody Sunday.

General Jackson told the tribunal on Wednesday that he simply wrote down what other senior soldiers had told him and that he did not speak to the individual soldiers.

He agreed that mistakes were contained in the document, but that he wrote it in the early hours when he was very tired.

Evidence

General Jackson had given evidence before the documents were received and, therefore, was not questioned about them at the time.

Lord Saville of Newdigate and the Commonwealth judges accompanying him on the Bloody Sunday inquiry began their work nearly four years ago.

They are not expected to report back until next year.

The Bloody Sunday Inquiry was established in 1998 by Prime Minister Tony Blair after a campaign by families of those killed and injured.

They felt that the Widgery Inquiry, held shortly after the shootings, did not find out the truth about what happened on Bloody Sunday.