Tribunal hears scapegoat claim

A SUSPENDED garda at the centre of the Morris Tribunal’s investigations said yesterday he believed garda chiefs wanted to scapegoat him for garda corruption in Co Donegal in the 1990s.

Detective Sergeant John White also revealed that he began seeing a psychiatrist for depression after an internal garda inquiry led by Assistant Commissioner Kevin Carty began in 1999.

The experienced detective recalled an interview with “stony-faced and very, very adversarial” officers from the Carty team in Letterkenny Garda Station in March 2000.