Sailor to hand himself into police after issuing daming report on nuclear programme

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 in England.

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