Former Police Commissioner calls for an independent investigation by Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Ian McGrail's lawyer claims the possibility that potential witnesses were receiving incentives to provide evidence against his client has been known to the RGP since early 2021. Charles Gomez says Mr McGrail came to know about this at that time from the current Commissioner of Police, Mr Ullger himself.
Mr McGrail, he says, accepts Sir Peter Openshaw’s ruling but is dismayed that the Inquiry has had to be adjourned to an unknown date in the future.
Ian McGrail's legal team says that in the recent unsuccessful prosecution and trial of Mr McGrail it came to light that several RGP officers had offered to provide potentially negative evidence relating to Mr McGrail to the Inquiry; It adds the number estimated by a former Gibraltar Police Federation Secretary in evidence was around 14 individuals.
It points out that in an interview to the Gibraltar Chronicle in July Police Commissioner Richard Ullger confirmed 11 officers had “left the force” under “whistleblower protections”.
Mr McGrail's lawyer, Charles Gomez says the Employment Act does not permit, still less require, alternative jobs to be offered to potential whistleblowers.
