Witness's deviousness prompted death threat claim, tribunal told

A witness who alleged he was threatened with a silver bullet by two members of the extended McBrearty family did so because he was devious, a former detective sergeant said today.

Bernard Conlon falsely alleged that two men, whom he later identified as Mark McConnell and Michael Peoples, had issued him with a death threat in July 1998 over evidence he gave against the McBreartys in a licensing prosecution.