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the supergrass system only two to three weeks before his murder. Apparently, Graham wiped the floor with his opponents, enraging the significant clement of militant republicans at the back of the hall. Trimble believes that members of the Queen's University IRA cell - who were to carry out the operation - were in the audience. He says that the police know who carried out the killing because there were witnesses. However, these witnesses were too frightened to testify. Trimbic says that QMMMMMD was the trigger-man and ‘WH seas the bag-carrier. One was an undergraduate studying political science and the other was a postgraduate studying computer science. The getaway driver was a female law student, now a solicitor practising in Northern Ireland. He could not remember her name. He said that no-one was charged with the murder. although EM was later convicted. in connection with a supergrass trial for another offence, but his conviction was quashed on appeal. He was later made a life-member of the Students’ Union. QJM appeared as a Sinn F candidate in the council elections some years ago in BQMMB Belfast. He does not know what he is doing now. The weapon which killed Graham was the weapon which tater killed the assistant governor of the Maze Prison. The other link between the latter killing and the Queen's University IRA cel! was that a QU IRA man was used as the getaway driver. I asked Trimble whether there was any suspicion that lecturers might have been involved in the QU IRA cell. He said that there was such suspicion. Indced;-hersaid, one lecturer had later gone on the run - in effect if not in law. He could not at first remember the name of this lecturer but then - unprompted by me - the name came to him: DAVID EWINS. He said that Ewins had gone in a great hurry to the Republic of Ireland shortly after Easter one year and had refused to return to QU, He said that Exfns had broken his contract with the university, firstly, by not working out his notice, and, secondly, by neglecting his duties as a lecturer: he had not been around to mark his students’ exam papers. In the end QU had had to send the exam Papers to Ewins at un address in the Republic so that he could eomplete his duties. He had refused absolutely to return to Belfast. Trimble said that he did not know the extent of Ewins’ involvement in the IRA. He knew that he was on the extreme left - some sort of Trotskyite, perhaps - and was mixing in republican circles, but he felt that perhaps Ewins might have inadvertently passed on information about possible targets rather than volunteering such information with the express aim of helping terrorists. He did not know whether the RUC had spoken to Ewins at any time, but he was sure that Ewins was acver officially arrested. He said that Ewims was not very well liked at QU. He had a few friends - extreme left-wingers like himself - but he did not mix very well. He said he was an Englishman from Kingston-upon-Thames, who was more sociologist than lawyer (criminology is really a sociological subject). He has not heard anything about Ewins for several years but he had heard that Ewins was having difficulty im finding cmployment in *<

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