Testimony Of Martin Mcgartland

EDM number 1138 in 1995-96, proposed by Peter Bottomley on 10/07/1996.

That this House recognises that it is a fiction to believe that Sinn Fein is separate from the IRA and that this is significantly underlined by the harrowing testimony of Martin McGartland, a former RUC agent within the Provisional IRA, given to the Peace Train Organisation in Dublin, in which he recounts how he was summoned to Sinn Fein headquarters in Belfast in August 1991, taken under gunpoint by Provisional IRA members and Gerry Adams' bodyguards, Jim McCarthy and Paul Hamilton, to a nearby estate where he was held for several hours until he escaped interrogation and murder by jumping out of the third storey bathroom; further notes that since his enforced exile from Northern Ireland, and the assumption of a new identity, his family has been persistently harassed by the Provisional IRA culminating, last week, in a brutal attack on his 24 year old brother, Joseph, who was bound and gagged, suspended upside down from a fence and beaten with scaffolding bars, sustaining many fractures and multiple injuries; and calls upon the Sinn Fein leadership to renounce such terrible violence and intimidation by the Provisional IRA, in line with the recommendations of the Mitchell Report which Gerry Adams says he supports.

This motion has been signed by a total of 1 MPs.