Police at the scene in Whitley Bay, Tyneside, where Martin McGartland was shot in 1999. Martin was shot 6 times by the IRA in June 1999. [3], Born into a staunchly Irish republican, Roman Catholic family in Belfast, McGartland grew up in a council house in Moyard, Ballymurphy at the foot of the Black Mountain. Among 60 recommendations to the Northumbria police regarding the McGartland shooting, the police forces suggest: That Northumbria police must make a formal media release acknowledging the re-investigation of the attempted murder of Mr McGartland. [38], In 1997 McGartland published a book about his life, Fifty Dead Men Walking. 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When he was exposed as an agent in 1991 he was abducted by the IRA, but escaped and was resettled in England. He has written two books about his life, Fifty . In 1984, OCallaghan informed his Garda handler of an attempt to smuggle seven tons of AK-47 assault rifles from the United States. Marty said: "I don't live any sort of normal life. [3], By 1980, Scappaticci was a lead member in the Internal Security Unit (ISU) for the IRA Northern Command. One of the crewmembers, John MacIntyre, agreed to wear a wire on meeting Bulger, Weeks, and Nee. Northumbria Police continue to cover-up Martin's attempted murder. 12 year old Cathy McGartland - IRA Child Soldier War Crime. McGartland had driven the IRA gunmen's getaway car and had been brought into the operation so late he had no time to advise his handlers, though he had previously indicated the IRA's interest in the area. He said he was, entirely unworthy of belief a selfish and self-regarding man, to whose lips a lie comes more naturally than the truth.[14]. [42], In August 2006 Ian Paisley told Peter Hain, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, "We have also heard how the sister of IRA informer Martin McGartland was told by police that her safety was under threat. . [3], In August 1974, OCallagan walked into a bar in Omagh, County Tyrone and fatally shot Detective Inspector Peter Flanagan of the RUC Special Branch. When he was exposed as an agent in 1991 he was abducted by the IRA, but escaped and was resettled in England. Marty says looking over his shoulder is now part of his everyday life. He received assistance from his neighbours and was rushed to intensive care in hospital where he recovered from his injuries. By not being present with his lawyers at the closed court, he would not be privy to anything pertaining to his case that the court submitted. A statement by Northern Ireland Secretary of State Peter Hain referred to his death as a barbaric act, while ROI Prime Minister Bertie Ahern condemned the brutal murder of Donaldson. Martin McGartland claims 1999 murder plot was covered up to keep peace process alive. This move by May was described by some lawyers and Human Rights' groups as "Kafkaesque". By clicking the Download button, you accept the responsibility for using unreleased content (including obtaining any clearances required for your use) and agree to abide by any restrictions. Samhan was nevertheless found guilty of robbery on 6 September 2006.[22][23]. From 198991, he provided information about IRA activities and planned attacks to the RUC Special Branch. During his time as a Special Branch intelligence agent, he became close to senior IRA members, having daily contact with those responsible for organizing and perpetrating the shooting attacks and bombings throughout Northern Ireland. Donaldson has been accused, by an unnamed republican source, of being part of the IRA team that carried out the La Mon restaurant bombing in 1978, one of the most notorious bomb attacks of the Troubles.[2]. If these were to be used in McGartland's 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. Martin McGartland, the ex-informer who infiltrated the IRA while working for the RUC Special Branch and later wrote about his experience in a best-selling book, is recovering in a hospital after surviving a gun attack at his home in Tyneside in Northern England. In the days, weeks and months after McGartland was shot and seriously wounded, both Northumbria police and the then Labour government refused to confirm that the IRA was responsible. The theatre had been searched before the concert and a second search following the warning revealed no device.[17]. Martin McGartland (born 30 January 1970, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a former British IRA grass who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1989 to pass information to RUC Special Branch. His friendship with the French writer and journalist Sorj Chalandon inspired two novels: My Traitor, published in 2008, and Return to Killybegs, published in 2011, Donaldson had a long history of involvement in Irish republicanism. Martin McGartland alleges that the organisation made a series of security gaffes that left him open to assassination. The extended Donaldson family had used it as a holiday retreat for several years. To order a copy (P&P free . These allegations, however, were strongly denied by both men. He was the youngest of eleven siblings and grew up as The Troubles began in Derry City in the early 1970s. glach [IRA Volunteer] Sean O'Riordan (13) On 19.02.72, fourteen-year-old David McAuley . Martin McGartland 02 August 2019 Dear Cambridgeshire Police / PSD, I note that you have dated your reply of today as 15 July BUT have sent it to. Its a scandal. He also would join in with other Catholic youths to battle against Ulster Protestant boys from nearby loyalist estates; this mostly involved throwing stones at each other. In 1962 at the age of 16 he was encouraged to sign for the football club Nottingham Forest although his father is said to have resisted the idea. After learning of MacIntyres deal from FBI agent John Connolly, Bulger murdered him and buried him in a South Boston basement. In 1999 McGartland was shot six times by two gunmen outside his home in Whitley Bay, North Tyneside. I am also calling on him to swiftly agree to an external police force to carry out my unsolved attempted murder investigation. [16] Working in the IRA Intelligence unit enabled McGartland to learn about the organisations command structure pertaining to finance, ordnance, intelligence and the detailed planning of operations. McGuinness said Gilmour must decide for himself whether or not it was safe to return to Derry and that he was not under threat from Sinn Fin, nor he believes from the IRA. In May 1978, he married a Scottish woman of Protestant unionist descent. He was held in secret in an unknown location for almost a year. I am the victim of an attack and I got around 50,000 in compensation, which is not a big amount considering my injuries. Police visited him at home to issue an official notice about fresh information that suggests his life is in danger. The police document is a major crime unit investigation review by the Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire forces. Martin Marty McGartland (born 30 January 1970 in Belfast, Northern Ireland)[1] is a former British agent who infiltrated the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA)[2] in 1989 to pass information to RUC Special Branch. He was also warned not to go out alone and to carry a mobile phone at all times. Soon afterwards, OCallaghan was arrested by local Garda after he accidentally detonated a small amount of explosives, which caused damage to his parents house and those of his neighbours. [40] McGartland criticised the police for inadequate protection but offered to testify on their behalf, saying: There are people who have been the victims of terrorist attacks, whove lost loved ones, and some of them havent been compensated. [27], Three years after moving to England, McGartland says the IRA sent his mother a Catholic mass card with his name written on it. [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). [citation needed]. In 1981 he was arrested by French authorities at Orly airport, along with fellow IRA volunteer, William Blue Kelly. This effectively made the IRA a police force in some areas. 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. Martin McGartland on IMDb: Movies, Tv, Celebrities, and more. Under the supergrass scheme, his was the only evidence available against them. Zapamti me Jo niste polaznik?Registrirajte se This was confirmed by Donaldson in a statement which he read out on RT, the Irish state broadcaster, shortly afterwards. He took up work as a bricklayer. During his time as a Special Branch intelligence agent, he became close to senior IRA members, having daily contact with those responsible for organising and perpetrating the shooting attacks and bombings throughout Northern Ireland. [12] The following year he won his lawsuit against Associated Newspapers, publishers of The Daily Mail, The Evening Standard and This is London web site, which had published an article alleging the shooting might be related to connections with local criminal gangs. This news broke immediately after the Secretary of States comments that he believed the IRA had ended all of its illegal activity.[44], Despite McGartland being known as one of the best agents to operate during the Troubles,[45] 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. [4] It was at this point that he apparently agreed to become an undercover agent for British security forces. "I'm still with my partner. At the end of the day I was grateful to be alive. [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. However, the IRA gunman got more than he bargained for - once again Martin McGartland showed incredible courage by hurling himself at the terrorist even as the 9mm bullets were smashing into his body. Marty was also advised to changed his daily routine and substantially increase his home security. [13], A few weeks later, OCallaghan made contact with Kerry IRA leader Martin Ferris and attended his first IRA meeting since 1975. Edited by: Jim Munro. Martin McGartland on tyne tees news after the 1997 malicious prosecution that exposted him to danger. Its findings appear to support McGartlands claims over the past two decades that the IRA rather than a local north-eastern criminal gang was behind the murder attempt in Whitley Bay on 17 June 1999. The reason I will help Northumbria Police is that this is an injustice. In 2017 the Chronicle revealed how Marty had been warned of new threats to his life. Belfast-born Marty infiltrated the IRA during the height of the Troubles in the 1980s for the British Secret Service. He has written two books about his life, Fifty Dead Men Walking: The Terrifying True Story of a Secret Agent Inside the IRA and Dead Man Running. [45], McGartland responded by lambasting May, pointing out that this is one of the daftest things I have ever heard; everyone who is interested knows my past [n]o current security interest is at stake. After highlighting the two books he has written about his life as an undercover agent, one of which was made into a successful film, there have also been six television documentaries on him and a number of newspaper articles. His testimony was one of the main elements of the supergrass policy, which hoped to convict large numbers of paramilitaries. [6] In 1978, after two years with the INLA as an RUC agent, he left on police instructions. In May 2005, Minister McDowell advised a US Special Envoy to Northern Ireland that he believed the outing of Donaldson as an informant was a clear message from the British Government that it had another, more valuable, source of information within the republican leadership. [24] McGartland escaped being killed by jumping from a third floor window in the Twinbrook flat where he had been taken for interrogation following his abduction. [9] He then worked for a local taxi firm as an unlicensed driver, paying a percentage to the IRA. After highlighting the two books he has written about his life as an undercover agent, one of which was made into a successful film, he also noted there have been six television documentaries on him and a number of newspaper articles. Half of all senior IRA members in the Troubles were working for intelligence services, a secret dossier of evidence into the murder of two RUC men has claimed. Various killings as a result of ISU activities have been attributed to Scappaticci. At the end of the day I was grateful to be alive. Product Type All Product Types . It was Martins husband who found her body on a shattered staircase inside the base. To the IRA, he was a trusted intelligence officer and an integral member of an active-service unit. This enabled him to better identify suspects who had been targeted by RUC Special Branch. McGartland, the Royal Ulster Constabulary mole who infiltrated the . In that same year 1991, McGartland provided information about a mass shooting attack planned on Charlie Heggartys pub in Bangor, County Down, where British soldiers frequently drank after what was generally a football match between the prison wardens. He has written two books; Fifty Dead Men Walking and Dead Man Running. All the comments within the letters had been agreed with Northumbria Police. [3], In one incident, Fulton was questioned on responsibility for designing firing mechanisms used in a horizontal mortar attack on a Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) armoured patrol car on Merchants Quay, Newry, County Down, on 27 March 1992. The . Ever since the 1997 case Northumbria police, the Crown authorities (aka MI5, home office and British Government) when . [10] On 12 April 2009, the Real IRA claimed responsibility for his death.[11]. In 1969, violent attacks were perpetrated against civil rights organizers and many other Catholics by unionists. [9] He then worked for a local taxi firm as an unlicensed driver, paying a percentage to the IRA. POLICE investigating the attempted murder of British agent Martin McGartland have failed to arrest or question a man identified as a suspect more than 10 years ago.The shocking revelation was made by cops reviewing the original police probe into the 1999 shooting which left the IRA infiltrator fighting for his life.The top secret review, headed "I still regard Whitley Bay and the Newcastle area as my home.". Two shotgun cartridges were found at the threshold of the cottage and a post mortem revealed that he had died from a shotgun blast to the chest. [2] After demanding, and receiving, treatment as a political prisoner, OCallaghan quietly served his sentence. His activities also attracted the attention of the IRA and on several occasions he narrowly escaped local disciplinary squads. She claims to have been wrongfully arrested and falsely imprisoned during a three-day period in 1994 following a purported attempt by the IRA to assassinate a senior detective in East Belfast. There is no question Martin McGartland is the most famous & most loved celebrity of all the time. Director: . In 2007, Gilmour publicly voiced his desire to return home to Derry, asking Martin McGuinness for assurances of his safety. [2] He was also given a beating by British soldiers at age 13 for petty crime and they attempted to recruit him as an informer. [8] In response, OCallaghan decided to become an informer. He has published a book detailing his experiences as a spy, Fifty Dead Men Walking. The court heard that OCallaghan was held at knifepoint while the two men ransacked the property that OCallaghan had been staying in at Popes Lane, Ealing, London. [4] One of the effects of the continuous rioting and the campaign of bombings and shootings in Belfast and all over Northern Ireland was to make McGartland grow up quickly. [6] He befriended a homeless man who sheltered in the disused Old Broadway cinema on the Falls Road, and provided the man with food and money. McGartland pointed out that the case had nothing to do with national security or his undercover work 24 years earlier. Im not complaining. [23] The penalty for informing on the IRA was death, often preceded by lengthy and sometimes brutal interrogations. [29] In Finucanes case, both the RUC and the Stevens Report have said that he was not a member. [11], He enjoys occasional games of backgammon and eating tiramisu, Come back soon for a feature on loyalist Supergrasses. Mass cards are sent as tokens of sympathy to bereaved families when a member of the family has died. His activities also attracted the attention of the IRA and on several occasions he narrowly escaped local disciplinary squads. [30], Journalist Kevin Myers praised McGartland's heroism and the Sunday Express newspaper described him as a "real-life James Bond". McGartland told the Guardian that this finding in particular proved that from the outset officers in Northumbria police knew that the IRA was behind the shooting. They were subsequently released without charge. In 2003, Scappaticci was alleged to have volunteered as an informer in 1978 after being assaulted in an argument with a fellow IRA member. He was released from detention in 1974 and was by this time a member of the Provisional IRA. [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. Here he took on a new identity and became known as Martin Ashe. [8] His right hand was also badly damaged by gunshot. McGartland was shot several times Thursday morning in the garage at the . His identity became publicly known after a minor court case. Nummer 6 - 2017; Nummer 5 - 2017; Nummer 4 - 2017; Nummer 3 - 2017; Nummer 2 - 2017 His identity became known after a minor court case; he was shot by the IRA, but recovered from the injuries. On 4 April 2006, Donaldson was found shot dead inside his cottage, where he had been living for several months. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. [20], A taxi driver and republican sympathizer, Noel Thompson, who picked Harrison up at Belfast airport and informed the IRA was later jailed for 12 years for conspiracy to murder. He has written two books about his life, Fifty Dead Men Walking: The Terrifying True Story of a Secret Agent Inside the IRA and Dead Man Running. 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