Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness is “willing” to be interviewed by police investigating the Bloody Sunday killings.
Martin McGuinness leaving Derry’s Guildhall after giving evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry in November 2003.
The senior PSNI officer heading the investigation, Chief Detective Inspector Ian Harrison, last week said his officers were to begin interviewing over 1,000 witnesses who gave evidence to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry as well as 250 British soldiers.
Mr McGuinness was one of a number of high profile witnesses to give evidence at the Saville Inquiry in Derry’s Guildhall.
In a Tweet, Mr McGuinness said police had been asked if he would be interviewed about the massacre.
He added: “I’m more than willing if necessary.”
During 14 hours of evidence, over two days, in November 2003, Mr McGuinness told the Inquiry the IRA did not engage in any way with the British Army on Bloody Sunday.
PSNI Chief Detective Inspector Ian Harrison.
He also said there were no IRA units on the Civil Rights march or in the Rossville Street area, there were no IRA weapons in that area and that no IRA shots were fired at the British Army.
Mr McGuinness, who at the time was Sinn Fein MP for Mid Ulster and Education Minister, rejected a claim which had been made by some British sources that some IRA members had been killed and secretly buried across the border.
He also refused to disclose the locations of the IRA’s command centre and arms dump in the Bogside at the time.
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