Raymond Gilmour.
Former Derry supegrass Raymond Gilmour is at loggerheads with the PSNI over plans to interview him about Provisional IRA killings and bombings in his home city.
The former RUC Special Branch agent said he wanted to return to Northern Ireland to conduct the interviews.
The questioning was due to take place under caution at the PSNI’s serious crime suite in Antrim within the next few weeks.
However, a senior detective from the PSNI’s Terrorist Investigation Unit (TIU) assigned to the case has told Gilmour’s Belfast-based solicitor the interviews will be conducted at a high security police in London under caution.
The senior investigating officer told the solicitor: “It would be very difficult to guarantee his safety if he returned to Northern Ireland.”
But Gilmour is refusing to accept the London police station offer over fears for his safety, saying the interviews should be conducted in Northern Ireland.
“The offences I want to talk to the PSNI about were committed in Northern Ireland,” he said.
“So I believe the proper place to conduct the interviews is Northern Ireland.
“At the end of the day, if they want to check anything I say they can’t go an look it up on a Scotland Yard computer because they are not linked to the PSNI.
“The whole interview process would just go on and on.
“This has been dragging on over three months now and I don’t why know they have been dragging their feet.”
Gilmour claimed the information he wanted to give could put senior IRA figures in Derryi in prison.
“At the end of the day, if the interviews don’t take place in Northern Ireland, they won’t take place at all.
“They can bring 1,200 police from GB to help them out on loyalist parades but they can’t guarantee the safety of one person.
“I have told the senior detective I don’t need PSNI security protection in Northern Ireland.
“I will come back under the protection of trusted former RUC officers who will provide me a safe house.
“I told him that the PSNI has been heavily infiltrated by republicans who dance to the tune of Sinn Fein’s Gerry Kelly.
“The whole security thing is a smokescreen. I am firmly convinced this is political policing and what I have to say it so explosive that it would be damaging to the peace process,” added Gilmour.
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