0 a person, especially a criminal, who gives the police a lot of information about the activities of criminals, especially serious ones --
That is true of some practices associated with what have come to be called the supergrass trials.
We are asking any judge to bear too great a burden, especially in the supergrass trials, where there can be up to 41 defendants.
It shows that it is working and supergrasses have gone.
It is understandable that some of the people turned to becoming supergrasses—and, by the way, the term "supergrass" is particularly offensive to me.
First, since 1981 the police have sought to rely very heavily on the evidence of the supergrass in the enforcement of the security system.
How pleased we would all be if a supergrass would turn up.
This is why our judges have condemned the immunity given to some of the "supergrasses" recently.
It is a question of the whole reliability of evidence from supergrasses.
