Sergeant ‘threatened’ garda interviewers with notes and tapes

A DETECTIVE sergeant threatened his garda interviewers that he had notes and tapes of his conversations with senior officers in Donegal, the Morris Tribunal heard yesterday.

John White made the comment as he walked out the door of the interview room in Letterkenny Garda Station on St Patrick’s Day in 2000, following his arrest earlier that day.

Chief Supt Joseph McGarty, who was in charge of the interview, said the comment came out of he blue.