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Thu 07 Jul 2006Garda put 'discredit' claim in custody recordA detective sergeant accused of planting a firearm on a Traveller site in north Donegal eight years ago wrote in his Garda custody record when arrested that he was being arrested in order to discredit him, a Letterkenny Circuit Court jury was told yesterday.Det Sgt John White was arrested under Section 30 of the Offences Against the State Act on June 18th, 2001, six days after Det Garda Thomas Kilcoyne made a statement saying he was also present when the sergeant obtained, test fired and brought a double-barrelled sawn-off shotgun to the encampment at Burnfoot, near the Donegal-Derry border.