In April 2014, Gilmours second book What Price Truth was published; in the book Gilmour goes into greater detail about his life within the IRA and INLA. McGartland was shot several times Thursday morning in the garage at the . Mass cards are sent as tokens of sympathy to bereaved families when a member of the family has died. Martin was kidnapped by the IRA in 1991 and escaped by jumping from a third floor window. [8] His right hand was also badly damaged by gunshot. I know that that organization will go on murdering other people until they are finally defeated. Martin McGartland, Writer: Fifty Dead Men Walking. "I was living like a prisoner and I was a victim of crime. Northumbria Police and the CPS led the IRA to Martin's 'safe house' and he was shot 6 times. [10] On 12 April 2009, the Real IRA claimed responsibility for his death.[11]. "[43], Despite McGartland being known as one of the best agents to operate during the Troubles,[44] British Home Secretary Theresa May told a court in early 2014 that she refused to confirm or deny that he was a British agent working for MI5, offering as explanation "in case providing such information would endanger his life or damage national security". I had been working for the security services in Northern Ireland since I was 16. During the trial OCallaghan stated that he had been looking after the property for a friend, the author Ruth Dudley Edwards, and he invited the two men back to the house for a drink after socialising with them in a nearby gay pub, West Five. Martin 'Marty' McGartland - Northumbria Police Cover-Up. On remand in Crumlin Road Prison, he was severely beaten by IRA prisoners. The IRA terrorist panicked and fled. [36] A week later, it was mentioned in the Northern Ireland Grand Committee as evidence that IRA arms decommissioning had not taken place,[37] and in January 2000 by Robert McCartney in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Discover more authors you'll love listening to on Audible. "[44], In the same month, May made an application using the controversial "Closed Material Procedures" (CMPs) which are secret courts under the recent Justice and Security Act. Gilmour was sent on remand to Crumlin Road Prison. [23] The penalty for informing on the IRA was death, often preceded by lengthy and sometimes brutal interrogations. [11], He enjoys occasional games of backgammon and eating tiramisu, Come back soon for a feature on loyalist Supergrasses. Please consider making a small or large donation as I am very poor and every donation is most welcome and goes towards the cost of running this blog. [22] Diaries of the late Detective Superintendent Ian Phoenix, head of the Northern Ireland Police Counter-Surveillance Unit, revealed that he and the other Special Branch officers had advised senior RUC officers against stopping the gun couriers vehicles as doing so would put McGartlands life at risk as well as allow the actual IRA gunmen to escape. To this day no one has ever been charged with his attempted murder. 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Yours sincerely, James Cooper James Cooper. [39], In 2003, PIRA member Scott Gary Monaghan,[40] a native of Glasgow, whose republican career began there in the Kevin Barry Flute Band, and who had been sentenced to 1004 years imprisonment in 1993, sued Northumbria Police for 150,000 for alleged ill-treatment when he was arrested (but not charged) over McGartlands shooting. The Provisional IRA issued a one-line statement saying that it had no involvement whatsoever with the murder. "It's all been a rollercoaster. But the scale of the damage I caused them can't go unpunished.". In his memoirs, OCallaghan wrote that, although some individual UDR soldiers had had links to loyalist paramilitary gangs, he subsequently learned that Private Martin was not one of them. Most of the people in the local community lived in fear from the IRA bully . 370 likes. [40][41], After the 1994 ceasefire, McGartland appealed to be allowed to return home to West Belfast. After becoming a full-time volunteer, OCallaghan was involved in various IRA operations, including a May 1974 mortar attack on a British army base at Clogher, County Tyrone in which a female Greenfinch Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldier, Private Eva Martin, was killed. Total costs, including the investigation, amounted to 1,500,000. "Over 40 members of the organisation were shot dead . If these were to be used in McGartlands lawsuit against the government for negligence and breach of contract, they would ensure that the public, media, as well as McGartland and his lawyers, would be denied access to the hearings. He was later shot six times by a gunman, but recovered from the injuries. He confessed to the murders of Private Eva Martin and D.I. [12] McGartland has said that his relatives have received harassment from Republicans;[12] in 1996, his brother Joe was subjected to a severe and prolonged IRA punishment beating with baseball bats, iron bars and a wooden plank embedded with nails. He would later allege that McCarthy and Hamilton were RUC informers based on what he had personally observed of the men during his kidnapping as he waited to be interrogated, tortured and subsequently executed. A report in a February 2007 edition of the Belfast News Letter reported that a cassette recording allegedly of Scappaticci talking about the number of murders he was involved in via the Nutting Squad, as well as his work as an Army agent, had been lodged with the PSNI in 2004 and subsequently passed to the Stevens Inquiry in 2005. [citation needed] He claimed to have been in regular contact with its leaders, Gerry Adams (now TD for Louth) and Martin McGuinness (now deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland). Martin is accepted by many to be one of MI5's best spies in Northern Ireland during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Martin's second Book, Dead Man Running, is also . Menu. She is the only person I can 100% trust. [12], Holding the rank of lieutenant in the IRA Belfast Intelligence unit, he ended up working mainly for Davy Adams, whom he drove to meetings and to survey potential IRA targets. For more than four years, Martin McGartland lived a double-life. He has written two books about his life, Fifty . [citation needed], Mays department the Home Office oversees MI5 and she herself had signed the application in a court case brought by McGartland and his partner, both of whom are obliged to live under secret identities that were provided by MI5. He denied that he had ever been linked to any facet of the British intelligence services, including the Force Research Unit.[6]. He cites a number of allegations against Scappaticci. Killing Rage The life and death of Eamon Collins. I wonder how well briefed the Home Secretary is? I still have to check under my car every time I get in it. Home office, MI5 and HMG using and abusing secret courts to cover-up their own dirty deeds, crimes and wrongdoing", "Is 'Fifty Dead Men Walking' really based on truth?". [6] In 1978, after two years with the INLA as an RUC agent, he left on police instructions. And he has this message for . Martin McGartland was badly wounded when he was shot a number of times by three armed and masked men at his home in Whitley Bay last June. OCallaghan stated that he had risen to leader of Southern Command and a substitute delegate on the IRA Army Council both in print and before a Dublin jury under oath. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. There may come a time when their patience runs out. Several months later, he joined the INLA. [5], After the original allegations broke in 2003, Scappaticci, by now living in the Riverdale area of West Belfast, claimed his involvement with the IRA ended in 1990 due to his wifes illness. 12 year old Cathy McGartland - IRA Child Soldier War Crime. The murder was also condemned by Sinn Fin leader Gerry Adams. [28], In 1997, his identity was revealed publicly by the Northumbria Police in court when he was caught breaking the speed limit and subsequently prosecuted for holding driving licences in different names, which he explained as a means of avoiding IRA detection. [15] He also worked closely with Belfast actress Rosena Brown, a prominent and highly skilled IRA intelligence officer. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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