An ex-RUC photographer who took a cine-film of events on Bloody Sunday never saw it again after it was shot, he claimed today.
Mr S R Penney, who was a member of the RUC's photographic branch at its headquarters in east Belfast, told the Bloody Sunday Inquiry he took approximately seven and a half minutes of film on the day when the shootings occurred.
However, when the film was sent to Kodak laboratories in Hemel Hempsted the ex-RUC man said he did not remember ever seeing it again.
In a statement to the inquiry, he said: "The film would have been exposed in segments. I only took cine-film of the riot and then stopped because it seemed very quiet afterwards and, as far as I was concerned, there was nothing more to film.
"I do not remember the films being returned and I do not have any recollection of watching the film. Normally I would have watched the films and put all three rolls of film onto one reel which would have then been sent to the investigating team in Londonderry.
"I did not keep copies of the film; there was only the original. I do not think the film which I took would have ended up on any TV reports. I do not know what happened to this film."
Mr Penney also recalled on Bloody Sunday a crowd at William Street throwing "anything they could get their hands on" at the British Army.
The photographer remembered seeing water cannons being used against the rioters and rubber bullets being fired.
CS gas was thrown from the crowd, he claimed, affecting him.
At William Street, Mr Penney saw "about seven or eight civilians" lined up against a wall after Army snatch squads moved in.
On arriving down Rossville Street, he saw three bodies together in the back of a British Army vehicle and two priests.
"I cannot remember hearing any shots," he insisted.
"I did not see anybody, either soldiers or civilians, firing guns at all on that day, apart from the soldiers firing baton guns at Barrier 14."