Sergeant stands trial on gun charges

A GARDA detective sergeant who helped foil a string of Real IRA terror attacks in the mid-1990s and a key player in the Morris Tribunal is to stand trial today for illegal possession of a gun.

John White is accused of planting a shotgun at a Traveller site outside Burnfoot on the Inishowen peninsula.

The 51-year-old suspended officer is due to appear before Donegal Circuit Court in Letterkenny.