Walter Mitty-type woman used by gardaí

THIS entire set of circumstances started with a mischievous young woman anxious to portray herself as an informer, says Mr Justice Frederick Morris.

But he can’t answer why Adrienne McGlinchey set out on the course she did.

Her ducking and diving around Buncrana with batteries and the inside of television sets, in full view of the gardaí, could have ended as just an eccentric footnote in the history of policing in north Donegal. But then she met Detective Garda Noel McMahon and later Superintendent Kevin Lennon.