Tomorrow, the 20th anniversary of her father’s murder, she will visit his grave: “I will remember the good times and try not to remember the bad. She believes her father’s death has been “brushed under the carpet” because it happened at a time when the focus was on keeping the fragile peace process on track. I don’t want something coming out in another 20 years. “This would help me get on with my life with my children. “He does not have to make himself known to me or my family or come into the public eye but I would like him to contact the relevant authorities to try and help us get closure. The 79th Venice Film Festival lineup was announced, with two Participant films premiering Laura Poitras documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. “The police say they have been in contact with him through letters and they know who he is, but they say they have never actually got the chance to meet him,” Ms McFaul said. However, the book raised more questions than answers for her and the family and she has appealed for Hartnett to pass on all the information he has to investigating officers.
David Caldwell’s daughter, Gillian McFaul, has been looking for answers ever since that day. He writes: “Until now, no one had any knowledge of North Det’s involvement in the incident. However, it appeared the killers “wrong-footed” the intelligence operatives and the other vehicle is believed to have been used in the attack that killed Mr Caldwell. Hartnett, who was based with the North Det intelligence team in Co Derry, claims when the two cars parted, the officer in charge opted to maintain surveillance of the Vauxhall instead of following the other car. Hartnett claims the vehicle travelled south before returning across the Border two days before the murder to meet another vehicle. The suspect’s white Vauxhall Cavalier car was loaded with electronic surveillance equipment and tailed for days. He claims the security forces were aware the key suspect’s car was being used to transport a bomb but did not know the intended target.
A year later, he writes, he was involved in a surveillance operation against key Real IRA suspects in the days before Mr Caldwell’s murder. The author, who used the pseudonym Seán Hartnett and said he had grown up in Cork in the 1970s, claims to have been deployed to Northern Ireland in 2001. Charlie One was described as the “true story of an Irishman in the British Army and his role in covert counter-terrorism operations in Northern Ireland”. In 2016, Mr Caldwell’s family were shocked when a book included alleged new information about his murder. I was bitter for a long time but I had to learn that you don’t get anywhere by being bitter.” She added her parents had always stressed the importance of “treating everyone the same”. “I kind of went off the rails and did not have a father figure. I left school with no education and had to restart again when I was 17, 18,” she said. “I had to leave school to look after my mother because she took sick.
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