MI5 tried to set up bombing: McGuinness

A member of MI5 tried to coax loyalists into launching a bomb attack on Martin McGuinness’s home, he alleged today.

As the British government prepared to publish legislation enabling the transfer of policing and justice powers to a future devolved administration at Stormont, Sinn Féin’s chief negotiator any lead role it may give to MI5 in running informers and agents in the North.