At about 4 am, John Wilson woke to a noise outside his house. When he went to see what had caused it, a morbid sight awaited him. A dead rat had been tied to his front door.
The message was not subtle: he was a rat.
John Wilson is a Garda whistleblower, responsible for exposing numerous counts of “ticket-fixing” in An Garda Síochána.
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