Supergrass

Definition

supergrass /'su:pǝgrɑ:s; Brit also 'sju:-/ n ( Brit infml ) (လူအေျမာက္အျမား၏ ျပစ္မႈကို ေဖာ္ထုတ္ ေပးေသာ) သတင္းေပး၊ ေဖာ္ေကာင္။ Compare GRASS n ၄

Examples

1. ‘Facing 25 years in jail
2. he transformed into a supergrass and implicated his accomplices in order to land himself a lighter sentence.’
3. ‘It ignored the statements made by the supergrasses before they signed immunity deals under the Garda Witness Protection Programme.’
4. ‘This officer
5. in a report in the early 1990s
6. said the supergrass was an extremely street smart criminal who ‘will do anything if he sees a financial gain.’’
7. ‘The court distinguished him from a supergrass or informer by describing him as ‘a contracted and paid agent of the FBI’ and as ‘a witness under protection.’’
8. ‘This is because
9. big surprise
10. research suggested more people would turn supergrass if they got more money to do it.’
11. ‘The programme which was intended to allow accomplices in serious crimes to turn supergrasses and give evidence in order to secure convictions was first introduced in 1997 in the wake of the Guerin murder.’
12. ‘The supergrass
13. who obtained an immunity deal for his part in the Guerin murder
14. claimed that an associate collected drugs for him from one of Holland's associates
15. whose identity was a mystery to him.’
16. ‘The judges also said they were ‘concerned’ that a named detective had ‘kept no record whatsoever of several meetings which he had
17. in the course of his investigations’ with the two supergrasses.’
18. ‘Lawyers for those accused of involvement in the plot say this was because the supergrass was not only involved but was an instigator of the conspiracy.’
19. ‘The quashing of that verdict led to the collapse of the supergrass system
20. a serious own goal for British governance in the North at the time.’
21. ‘Her stories were harmless
22. yet she was treated then as roughly as any supergrass in Wormwood Scrubs.’
23. ‘A supergrass who blew the lid off a multi-million-pound drugs ring has been jailed for two years.’
24. ‘He talks off the record for nearly an hour about what the supergrasses possibly did on the day of the slaying.’
25. ‘The two key supergrasses on the scheme were described by the judges as ‘inveterate liars’ who received money from Gardai that ‘almost certainly came from the proceeds of crime’.’
26. ‘A drugs baron who turned supergrass to implicate his mother
27. wife
28. brother
29. lover and others was jailed for six years yesterday for smuggling £132m of cocaine and cannabis into Britain.’
30. ‘He was to become a supergrass under the state's Witness Protection Programme.’
31. ‘Evidence against him was given by a supergrass
32. who admitted his involvement and is currently serving seven years in jail.’