Aggressive interview techniques widely used, tribunal told

INTERVIEW techniques used to threaten two Donegal sisters were widely used by gardaí for serious crime investigations, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

Detective Sergeant John White, who has admitted subjecting the two innocent women to a terrifying ordeal in Letterkenny Garda station in 1996, said he had seen the same techniques used by other detectives.

“The methods employed would be done for years and years. In difficult situations, where we thought people were lying, but only in an effort to get to the truth,” he said.