McGuinness: Informer is 'a fantasist'
Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has repeated at the Saville inquiry today that allegations from British army informers about his actions on Bloody Sunday were lies motivated by anti-republicanism.
The Sinn Féin MP said one informer, Willie Carlin, had made claims relating to conversations that never happened.
"He is hostile to me, he is hostile to Sinn Féin," Mr McGuinness said.
"He has contrived to manufacture conversations with me that never took place."
Mr McGuinness also launched an attack on Paddy Ward, a suspected British army informer who has claimed that the Sinn Féin MP handed out detonators for nail bombs on Bloody Sunday.
"We are dealing with an out-and-out fantasist here, we are dealing with someone who is hostile to me, someone who is hostile to Irish republicanism," Mr McGuinness said.
"His accusations I refute absolutely. They are totally and absolutely without foundation."
