Supergrass is a British slang term for an informant who turns King's evidence, often in return for protection and immunity from prosecution. In the British...

Look up informant  or stool pigeon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. An informant (also called an informer or, as a slang term, a "snitch", "rat", "canary"...

form of magnetic resonance imaging Grass, grasser or Supergrass (informant) in the UK, an informant, especially one criminal informing on another, to the...

Pius McAnally "Gingy" and the journey he makes on his way to becoming a supergrass. Gingy is reluctantly pulled out of retirement in a caravan in the Republic...

June 1935 – 31 January 2008) was considered by many as Britain's first supergrass. Although there have been informers throughout history – the Kray twins...

Turkey, Serbia, and Spain. In Ireland, a tout is an informant, a term which includes supergrass. Handicapping Tipster "Taxis in London". Retrieved 2009-11-10...

him. The court case was based mainly on the evidence of so-called supergrass (informant) Mohammed Junaid Babar, who was found guilty of terrorist offences...

"Loyalist 'supergrass' jailed for six years". BBC News. 29 January 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2018. "Northern Ireland: UVF chief turned informant Gary Haggarty...

prosecution), as well as a new identity to protect them from retribution. Supergrass testimony was used, for example, in trials against IRA members. American...

did in the late-Seventies, which proved extremely damaging during the supergrass trials of the mid-Eighties. The INLA leadership later admitted that their...

those paramilitary organisations. His testimony was a main element of the supergrass policy, which was aimed at convicting large numbers of paramilitaries...

disappearance. The link was discussed by British media in 2014. "Shoe-bomber supergrass Saajid Badat testifies in US". BBC News. 23 April 2012. Retrieved 18 January...

the Sicilian Mafia. He became one of the first of its members to turn informant and explain the inner workings of the organization. Buscetta participated...

arrested on the evidence of William "Budgie" Allen, a UVF member who turned supergrass and provided evidence on the activities of a number of his fellow members...

2011, a third supergrass witness was dismissed, after accusations that police had failed to disclose that he was a registered police informant. In March 2011...

underperforming throughout the 1980s. In 1984, the squad began to rely heavily on 'supergrass' evidence. These later proved unreliable, but did lead to a number of...

unreleased Radiohead song, "Spooks", performed by Greenwood and members of Supergrass. Greenwood said Radiohead's version was "a half-idea we never made work...

first criminal and then supergrass. Revenger's tragedy by Aidan Smith in The Scotsman 18 April 2004 The £1 Billion Supergrass by Graham Johnson in The...

defendant's confession until his trial had begun. "Supergrass" is a British slang term for an informant who turns King's evidence, often in return for protection...

dealing and extortion in South London. The first Yardie to become a police informant for the Metropolitan Police, his later testimony during his 1997 deportation...

Volume 354 – 4 December 1984, Private Members' Business – Northern Ireland Supergrass Trials Archived 7 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine, historical-debates...

2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022. Johnson, Graham (2005). Powder Wars: The Supergrass who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers. Random House. p. 134...

£150 million, Britain's security forces - who admitted he was their "supergrass" on Colombian cartels - re-homed him in Australia where his visa was revoked...

complex interweb of events which sees him turn from criminal mastermind to supergrass. It is also revealed that Callaghan previously had a relationship with...

Ireland not to have its ranks heavily penetrated by a so-called supergrass or informant during the early 1980s; this was attributed to the group's secrecy...

plotting 21 July 2005 London bombings. In return for being a government supergrass, his sentence was drastically reduced to time served and he was released...

the Society's main drug distributor in Victoria and in 1983 he became a supergrass. Tizzoni named James Bazley as the hitman who had murdered Donald Mackay...

aide 'struck deal with mafia'", The Guardian, January 8, 2003 "Mafia supergrass fingers Berlusconi" by Philip Willan, The Observer, January 12, 2003 (in...

rioting.". In the 1980s, the Belfast Brigade was hard hit by the use of supergrass informers. These were IRA men who were either recruited as informers by...

story of Brian Deeds - living a new life in New Zealand after turning 'supergrass' in his native Ireland some years before. His life is turned into turmoil...