Seaman who raised safety fears at Trident nuclear programme to hand himself in

A Royal Navy submariner who criticised safety and security procedures around the Trident nuclear programme has said he will hand himself over to the authorities.

Able Seaman William McNeilly went absent without leave last week after producing a damning 18-page report containing a series of claims about Trident submarines at Faslane on the Clyde, describing it as a ”disaster waiting to happen”.

He told the BBC: “I’m not hiding from arrest; I will be back in the UK in the next few days and I will hand myself in to the police.