Thirty years after he was described by a judge as “entirely unworthy of belief,” discredited supergrass Raymond Gilmore is looking to go back to court to “lift the lid on atrocities carried out by the IRA’s Derry Brigade.”
Raymond Gilmour.
The 54-year-old, branded by a judge at the trial of 35 Derry men in 1984 as a “selfish and self-regarding man, to whose lips a lie comes more naturally than the truth,” wants to be interviewed by PSNI detectives about “what happened all those years ago.”
Speaking to Belfast Daily, Gilmour – who has been living at a secret address in England since the collapse of the 1984 trial – said he was prepared to tell police the names of IRA members responsible for a number of killings in Derry as well as those who planted the bomb which killed Lord Mountbatten in Co Sligo in 1979.
He said: “Now I am going to be asking the PSNI through my solicitor in Belfast to come and interview me about what I know happened all those years ago.
“I want this to be a fresh approach to what happened. I have the names of those involved in these murders.
“These families deserve to know the real truth and also get justice.’’
He added: “The more I have opened up about what happened all those years ago, the better I feel.”
He said talking about his past had helped to unburden him of secrets he had known about since the late 1970s and early 1980s.
He added: “When I was a supergrass in the early 1980s, I wrecked the IRA in Derry. I brought them to their knees.
“Now I intend to do the same.”
Using quotes used by the judge at the supergrass trial, a Sinn Fein spokesperson said: “On December 18th 1984 the presiding judge Lord Lowry ruled that Gilmour was not a credible witness.
“He said he was ‘entirely unworthy of belief… a selfish and self regarding man to whose lips a lie comes more naturally than the truth’.”
Last week, Gilmour made a secret 24-hour visit back to the North to sign copies of his new book “What Price Truth?” before slipping back to his hideaway in England.
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