Joanne Mathers: shot dead.
Derry IRA supergrass Raymond Gilmour says will tell police the name of the man who killed census worker Joanne Mathers in the city over 30 years ago.
Gilmour said he will also reveal the name of the woman who supplied the gun when he is interviewed by detectives from the PSNI’s Terrorist Investigation Unit (TIU) at a police station in England.
The mother-of-one was shot dead in 1981 as she collected census forms in the Waterside area of the city.
Speaking from his hideaway home in England, Gilmour told Belfast Daily he had recalled the information about the woman following the publication of his book “What Price Truth?”
“This woman, who was a good looking girl in her day, came over from the Shantallow area and walked to the Waterside in the east to provide the gun.
“The murder weapons was .357 Magnum revolver which had been stolen from the home of a part-time RUC officer.
“This girl was a courier for the IRA in the city. She never came to the attention of the police which allowed her to move easily from the west bank to the east bank of Derry.”
Gilmour said during the interview he will tell the names of the woman who “couriered” the gun and the “man who shot her.”
He added: “I believe on the strength of my statements all three people should be arrested and questioned. If not, then I am just wasting my time.”
Gilmour was the only witness in the supergrass trial of 35 INLA and IRA suspects but it collapsed in 1984.
The then Lord Chief Justice Lord Lowry dismissed Gilmour’s evidence as being “unworthy of belief.”
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