Shouldn't Tell Tales

A coroner John Leckey has described the murder of a former IRA supergrass as one of the most brutal he has ever seen. Its bad when a coroner gets upset.
Eamon Collins turned supergrass after he was arrested by the RUC in 1985. He got 40 people arrested but after a plea from his republican wife he recanted on his accusations.

Collins was a former IRA intelligence officer and was involved in the torture of suspected informers. In 1997 he wrote a book describing how an undercover British Army officer was tortured and murdered in 1977 and how his body was disposed of in a meat grinder.

In 1999 while walking his dog at Doran's hill Newry he was stabbed and had been beaten so badly that police initially thought he had been hit by a car .

It is believed the south Armagh Provisional IRA carried out this murder. Due to the peace process it probably won't be taken very much further, they may give up a scapegoat if pressed but this was a well deserved murder, you reap what you sow.

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams who had had arguments in public with Collins in the past said that the killing was "regrettable" but added that Mr Collins had "many enemies in many, many, many places".