Imprisonment
On 29 November 1988, after having again resigned from the Provisional IRA, Sean O'Callaghan walked into a police station in Tunbridge Wells, England. He confessed to the murders of Private Eva Martin and D.I. Peter Flanagan and voluntarily surrendered to British prosecution. Although the RUC repeatedly offered him witness protection as part of the supergrass policy, O'Callaghan refused to accept. In his memoirs, he states that he intended to continue combating Sinn Féin-IRA through the press after his release.
O'Callaghan served his sentence in prisons in Northern Ireland and England and foiled several planned escapes by imprisoned IRA members. While in jail he told his story to The Sunday Times. Sean O'Callaghan was released as part of a Prerogative of Mercy by Queen Elizabeth II in 1997. In 1999, he published an autobiography entitled The Informer: The True Life Story of One Man's War On Terrorism.
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