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The programme which was intended to allow accomplices in serious crimes to turn supergrasses and give evidence in order to secure convictions was first introduced in 1997 in the wake of the Guerin murder.
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Anderson has been named by a "supergrass" convicted of conspiracy to murder who will give evidence next week. marcpen: A supergrass is a high level ex-gang member who 'turns Queen's Evidence' to become a prosecution witness.
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This officer, in a report in the early 1990s, said the supergrass was an extremely street smart criminal who ‘will do anything if he sees a financial gain.’
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The court distinguished him from a supergrass or informer by describing him as ‘a contracted and paid agent of the FBI’ and as ‘a witness under protection.’
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It ignored the statements made by the supergrasses before they signed immunity deals under the Garda Witness Protection Programme.
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One after the other, the supergrasses had copped out, backed down, retracted.
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Brian Ervine, the new leader of the political party associated with the UVF, told Spotlight that a senior north Belfast loyalist's apparent decision to become a "supergrass" could harden the position.
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The two key supergrasses on the scheme were described by the judges as ‘inveterate liars’ who received money from Gardai that ‘almost certainly came from the proceeds of crime’.
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The supergrass, who obtained an immunity deal for his part in the Guerin murder, claimed that an associate collected drugs for him from one of Holland's associates, whose identity was a mystery to him.
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Lawyers for those accused of involvement in the plot say this was because the supergrass was not only involved but was an instigator of the conspiracy.
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Were they at the camp with 'supergrass' Mohammed Junad Barbar, the key witness for the prosecution in the current ongoing terrorism trial codenamed Crevice thwarted fertiliser-bomb vehicle plot at the Old Bailey?
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Spending will probably have to rise again to pay for increased efforts to provide surveillance, infiltrate terrorist ranks and perhaps find a "supergrass" or two to testify against former associates.
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Snarfangel: Anderson has been named by a "supergrass" convicted of conspiracy to murder who will give evidence next week.
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A drugs baron who turned supergrass to implicate his mother, wife, brother, lover and others was jailed for six years yesterday for smuggling £132m of cocaine and cannabis into Britain.
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Facing 25 years in jail, he transformed into a supergrass and implicated his accomplices in order to land himself a lighter sentence.
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What are your views of the reports that Mohammed Siddique Khan met Mohammed Junaid Babar the key 'supergrass' prosecution witness in the current 'Operation Crevice' trial ?
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Along with 'supergrass' Mark Burcombe and Noel Dillon, who has since killed himself, the friends had been drinking in Brown's Tandragee flat when Andrew spoke derogatorily about UVF commander Richard Jameson, who had been gunned down by the LVF two weeks earlier.
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Evidence against him was given by a supergrass, who admitted his involvement and is currently serving seven years in jail.
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Her stories were harmless, yet she was treated then as roughly as any supergrass in Wormwood Scrubs.
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Spending will probably have to rise again to pay for increased efforts to provide surveillance, infiltrate terrorist ranks and perhaps find a "supergrass" or two to testify against former associates.
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Mr Ervine told Spotlight that a senior north Belfast loyalist's apparent decision to become a "supergrass" could harden the position.
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He was to become a supergrass under the state's Witness Protection Programme.
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The case is based around so-called supergrass evidence supplied by Newtownabbey brothers David Stewart (38) and Robert Stewart
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The judges also said they were ‘concerned’ that a named detective had ‘kept no record whatsoever of several meetings which he had, in the course of his investigations’ with the two supergrasses.
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Prosecutors said the allegation was made long ago by an unreliable supergrass, and no investigation is expected.
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Spending will probably have to rise again to pay for increased efforts to provide surveillance, infiltrate terrorist ranks and perhaps find a "supergrass" or two to testify against former associates.
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He talks off the record for nearly an hour about what the supergrasses possibly did on the day of the slaying.
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The quashing of that verdict led to the collapse of the supergrass system, a serious own goal for British governance in the North at the time.
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This is because, big surprise, research suggested more people would turn supergrass if they got more money to do it.
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A supergrass who blew the lid off a multi-million-pound drugs ring has been jailed for two years.
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Families of the July 7 victims hit out today after it emerged that an al-Qaida 'supergrass' who set up a training camp attended by the mastermind of the London bombings has been freed after only four and a half years in prison.
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