Bullet trip was 'ploy to get RUC involved'
Alleged informer Adrienne McGlinchey took bullets across the border in order to get the Royal Ulster Constabulary involved in her case, the Morris Tribunal has heard.
Ms McGlinchey was earlier said to have gone from Co Donegal to Strabane on a IRA mission, to hand over a package of bullets to a woman contact from the Co Tyrone town’s Ballycolman Estate.
Detective Superintendent Kevin Lennon told the tribunal he was informed in advance about the plan in a telephone call from fellow detective Garda Noel McMahon.
Today, though, Paul Murray, counsel for Ms McGlinchey, put it to the superintendent: “This evidence about a lady from the Ballycolman estate is completely bogus.
“There was never going to be a delivery to any lady from the Ballycolman Estate.
“This was to get the RUC on board.”
Mr Lennon replied: “All I did was to legitimately act on the basis of a telephone call I got. I only know what I was told.”
In the event, Ms McGlinchey did not meet a woman in Strabane, but threw the bullets, which were later recovered by the RUC, over a wall instead. She returned home to Buncrana and was told by Supt Lennon never to repeat that kind of behaviour.
Kevin Lennon and Noel McMahon have both denied preparing explosives, together with Ms McGlinchey, for use in fake Garda arms finds.
Adrienne McGlinchey has denied either being an informer or an IRA member.
