Suspended detective: Garda chiefs wanted me as a scapegoat

A suspended garda at the centre of the Morris Tribunal’s current investigations today said he believed Garda chiefs wanted to ’scapegoat’ him for corruption in the force in Co Donegal in the 1990s.

Detective Sergeant John White also revealed that he began seeing a psychiatrist for depression after an internal Garda inquiry led by Assistant Commissioner Kevin Carty began in the north-west in 1999.