I listened the other morning on the RTE radio morning show to Derry supergrass, traitor, tout, informer, squealer, mouthpiece, source, spy, mole, bar-stool pigeon, blabber, and British agent Raymond Gilmore giving evidence, sorry, I meant talking about his experience and how the British have treated him since he destroyed the lives of many people in the city of Derry and beyond.

I have to say that as a republican I have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for this paid perjurer because I know that not only has he destroyed the lives of members of his own family, by his actions, but he has left many genuine individuals and families in this city with a lot of heartache.

Not once during that programme did he mention the name of 18 year-old Colm McNutt who was ambushed and killed by the SAS in 1977, his close friend and neighbour. WHY?

Gilmore says he needs support? The people whose lives he turned upside down need support - the wives, the children, mothers and fathers of the people who he sent to prison for nearly four years in the 1980s. The man knows nothing of the legacy he has left behind and if he has any grey matter in that head of his that's just what he should do - leave it all behind him and stay in England along with all the other traitors and touts who have left Derry in the distant past.

Yours,

I knew Raymond Gilmour, I'm glad he didn't know me.

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