Garda ‘did not arrest bullet courier’

DETECTIVE Superintendent Kevin Lennon told the Morris Tribunal yesterday he took no action against alleged informer Adrienne McGlinchey when she took a lunchbox packed with bullets across the border for the IRA because she was helping gardaí.

Supt Lennon told the garda corruption probe Ms McGlinchey was to deliver the ammunition to a woman from Strabane's Ballycolman Estate at the request of the IRA and he did not order her arrest despite her refusal to divulge any information about the incident.

Giving evidence for a third day, the superintendent said he did not order an arrest because while making the delivery, she was also helping the gardaí.