A lawyer acting for the family of a former IRA prisoner who took his own life in a police station branded a potential witness a “police informer” in the coroner's court yesterday. Barrister Conor O’Kane also voiced concerns about a potential “police cover up” during the preliminary inquest hearing into the death of John Brady. Mr Brady (40) took his own life while being held at Strand Road PSNI station in Derry in 2009. It has been claimed he was approached by members of the PSNI’s C3 unit, formerly known as Special Branch, three times before hi[...]