Photofit could identify ‘£5m man’

THE Mahon Tribunal has been given the name of a bank official who may be able to help identify the mystery man who Tom Gilmartin says demanded £5 million from him in return for supporting his shopping centre plans.

Mr Gilmartin also offered to create a photofit of the man he claims threatened that he would “end up in the Liffey” after he rejected the demand made to him in a corridor in Leinster House following a meeting with government ministers in February 1989.

He described the man for the first time yesterday, saying he was slightly smaller than himself, with an oval face and short cropped hair going grey in a “salt and pepper” colouring.