THE Gardai have spent over €4 million to protect state witnesses and their families since 2016, The Irish Sun can reveal. The Justice Department hands the force €1.2m each year to fund the Witness ...

ITV1's latest drama Protection has gripped viewers with its thrilling story following a witness protection officer caught in a deadly conspiracy. Siobhan Finneran leads the cast as DI Liz Nyles, a cop ...

Life lived in the witness protection programme starts with the stark fact your life is in immediate danger. Most often associated with informants or criminals, it’s also used for women and children ...

ITV’s new edge-of-your-seat thriller Protection is already being hailed as the next Line of Duty – but is this really what it’s like in the law enforcement? The six-part series stars Siobhan Finneran ...

The conviction of Thomas Cashman for the murder of nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel was largely down to the testimony of a key witness, who now potentially faces a life under witness protection.

Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Mmamoloko Kubayi effectively implied that former Ekurhuleni cop Marius van der Merwe was partly responsible for his own death at the hands of ...

The state had a responsibility to protect Marius “Vlam” van der Merwe, who testified under the alias Witness D at the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry into police impropriety, before he was fatally shot ...