Suspended garda cleared of planting shotgun at Traveller camp

A suspended detective Garda sergeant, who is credited with thwarting a string of Real IRA terror attacks, was today cleared of planting a shotgun at a traveller encampment in Donegal in a bid to frame a group of men for murder.

John White, from Ballybofey, was charged with illegal possession of a double barrelled sawn-off shotgun at the site near the village of Burnfoot in May 1998.