Former detective's testimony likened to spy novel

A former detective sergeant described a secret meeting between gardaí over a witness’s past as if it was something from a John Le Carre novel, the Morris Tribunal chairman said today.

Det Sgt John White told Judge Frederick Morris he had been summoned to the meeting to discuss discrepancies in the list of convictions of Bernard Conlon in a car park in Donegal town in September 1999.