‘I was so tired I would have agreed to anything’

A GARDA chief wanted the Cork man accused of money-laundering to rubberstamp the view that Phil Flynn was behind the Northern Bank robbery, but the accused said he was so tired and confused during interrogation that he would have agreed that Mother Teresa was his sister.

The accused said he was told that gardaí would leak it to the media that he named names and that the IRA would put a bullet in his head and that his family would suffer the same fate.

This was the claim made yesterday by Ted Cunningham, aged 60, of Woodbine Lodge, Farran, Co Cork, who denies 20 charges of money-laundering, in a case that arises out of the investigation of the robbery of £26.5 million from the Northern Bank in Belfast on December 20, 2004.