Convicted gun runner Ferris has claimed Paul Hamilton was also involved in the Hanlon and Glover murders. Indeed it was the case that Ferris had become friendly with certain police officers, so much so that the following year in 1986 he formed quite a relationship with PC Graham Mitchell, a zealous cop with an eye on furthering his career within the force. The court heard how Bowen from Cardigan in Ceredigion had also tried to force his hand down the woman's knickers during the journey in a squad car. He is now an investigative journalist and the author of None So Pretty: The Sexing of Rebecca Pine and Indictment with T C Campbell.

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Surgeons had stood for seven hours piecing together, like a jigsaw puzzle, the bone structure of the innocent coach drivers leg: he would spend the next two months in hospital and was even threatened by Ferris's cronies and warned not to give evidence.

The legislation gives [these inquiries] huge powers to demand anything and everything and then to decide on relevance," Sir Hugh said. Is it wrong therefore to believe that he is no way a fit person to be the legal guardian of the child? You have posted material relevant to the topic on Police Informants which is very helpful to understand the informant and background concerning the case. Detectives eager to keep him on board, ignored powerfull evidence that linked him to the Rettendon murders and in an effort to cover up the fact, failed to disclose it to the defence team of the two men who were later convicted of the triple murders. Glasgow godfather Arthur Thompson, ex-enforcer Paul Ferris, 54 and the city’s first Mr Big, Walter Norval, will be among 100 infamous hoods to be charted in series British Notorious.

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Last year the Sinn Féin official Denis Donaldson, who worked for special branch, was shot dead at a remote cottage in County Donegal. But it was Thompson's youngest son, Billy, that Ferris became friendly with in the beginning and very quickly they became close partners in crime. He added: "I was prepared to go on national television and have a face to face debate with Mr Betts, but he refused. Sir Hugh said he could not withhold documents under the inquiries act but he was discussing with lawyers the use of public interest immunity certificates preventing the disclosure of evidence leading to identities being revealed.

For Courtney to say that each time he sees his once ' good friend' he will give him a right-hander is unbelievable. Convicted gun runner Ferris has claimed Paul Hamiltonwas also involved in the Hanlon and Glover murders. John Hogg, who was a coach driver and innocent cousin to Gibson, and in full view of his wife Shirley, was the one who got hit as the hail of Copper-tipped bullets came flying at them from all different angles.

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But if he was indeed Hamilton’s assassin, it takes the heat off another man who was questioned over the 1993 murder – Lobban’s former friend and now bitter enemy, Ferris.His comments signal a possible public clash with the judges involved in running the long-awaited public inquiries. There are professional issues around the conflict between the powers of the inquiries and, for example, my obligations under article 2, section 29, of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act about protecting the identity of informants. In a bid to save himself from a lengthy prison sentence,he named names in a story laced with 'theories' the Police had aired in the media since the murders. But the pair fell out spectacularly and in 1992 Ferris walked free from the longest murder trial in Scottish legal history when he was found not guilty of Arthur ‘Fat Boy’ Thompson Jnr’s execution.

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If] someone is at the beginning of the spiral of abuse, where there is evidence to indicate during the investigation that this person may well benefit from a police caution and be managed, then of course that needs to be done. And he strongly denies any involvement in Thompson jnr’s murder – a crime Ferris tried to pin on him. What's more and abundantly clear at this stage is that Ferris had serious problems and issues relating to the loyalty he once had for the Thompson clan.I think it is disgraceful that we simply can't be allowed to get on with our own business without being continually harassed by this type of scheme. TELEVISION hardman and former gangland figure Dave Courtney has issued a writ against the Metropolitan Police claiming that the force intentionally put his life in danger. He met John Henry when the Newcastle hardman was being transferred from Durham's HMP Frankland to HMP Full Sutton in Yorkshire.