A witness told the inquiry that up to six soldiers kicked and punched him in an armoured car on Bloody Sunday after he had been thrown into the vehicle by other soldiers. Mr James Doherty said he was terrified and was certain he was going to be shot. "My only thought was to keep my head down and cover myself up to avoid being seriously injured."
After five or 10 minutes the rear doors were opened and another man called Charley Canning was thrown in. The witness said Mr Canning had been a sergeant in the army in the past and was outraged at how he was being treated.
"He kept saying things to the soldiers like `I used to be a sergeant in the army, and bastards like you used to lick my boots'," said the witness. "This was not helping at all, and Charlie got as bad a beating as I did."
Mr Doherty described being taken to the Fort George base later in a truck, and said that he and others had to run between lines of soldiers to the door of a building, while being beaten with batons and kicked and punched.
Another witness, Mr Otto Schlindwein, a pharmacist, gave evidence of having treated Mrs Peggy Deery in a house in Chamberlain Street on Bloody Sunday.
Mrs Deery was bleeding profusely from a serious bullet wound, and he feared for her life. He helped put her into an ambulance and was then arrested by soldiers.
The inquiry was adjourned until April 30th.
Archives of evidence and rulings to date can be accessed on the inquiry website at www.bloody-sunday-inquiry.org