Mitchell links SF to disappearance of mail

GAY MITCHELL has become the latest politician to back Michael McDowell’s allegations linking Sinn Féin with criminality after making the extraordinary claim that Republican subversives may have tampered with his post.

The newly elected Fine Gael MEP disclosed yesterday that official Oireachtas correspondence in his name had disappeared in sinister circumstances.

Raising the matter in the Dáil, Mr Mitchell called for an enquiry into how at least three letters sent to an un-named area of his constituency within an eight-day period in February failed to arrive.