INLA leader Christo-pher "Crip" McWilliams was threatened that he would be put back behind bars unless he cooperated with the Billy Wright inquiry, mourners at his funeral were told.McWilliams, who gained notoriety in 1997 when he was part of the INLA gang who shot Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF) leader Wright dead as he sat in a prison van inside the H Blocks, had been warned that he would face imprisonment unless he agreed to give evidence at the public inquiry into the loyalist leader's murder.In 1984 McWilliams was jailed for 14 years for his part in a shoot-out with police in west Belfast in which an INLA man and RUC man were killed.Seven years later McWilliams was sentenced to life for the murder of Belfast bar manager Colm Mahon, who was shot dead after asking McWilliams and friends to leave a bar.McWilliams denied carrying out the murder but refused to identify McMahon's killer.It was while he was serving this sentence that he was one of three INLA prisoners who broke out of their prison wing and shot the notorious Loyalist Wright dead as he sat in a prison van.Despite receiving a life sentence for the murder of Wright in 1998 he was released within two years under the Good Friday Agreement.Within months of being released McWilliams developed a rare bone marrow cancer. He died on Saturday morning.On Monday McWilliams was given "full military honors" with INLA men dressed in paramilitary uniforms flanking his coffin as it left his home on the Daisyhill estate in Newry.The Starry Plough flag and a beret and gloves were placed on the INLA leader's coffin as it made its way through Newry flanked by 100 men in white shirts and black ties. The paramilitary trappings were removed from the coffin at it entered St. Catherine's Church.Delivering the graveside oration, Irish Republican Socialist Party leader Willie Gallagher revealed that McWilliams had been prepared to face being sent back to prison by the Wright Inquiry in the weeks before he died."Crip had been looking forward to cooperating with the Wright inquiry and had been in contact with them through his solicitor in recent months," he said."However when they threatened to send him back to prison unless he revealed the identities of those who had helped in the assassination of Billy Wright he told them to do their worst."He was prepared to cooperate with the inquiry as best he could, but he was not going to compromise his INLA comrades in any way.Gallagher used the graveside oration to attack weekend comments made by Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness in which he called for dissident Republicans to disband and support the peace process.McGuinness' comments came after the INLA was blamed for the murder of 22-year-old Emmett Shiels in Derry last week. The INLA later denied involvement in the murder.However in a stinging attack on the Sinn Fein leader, Gallagher said, "Our simple message to the British micro-minister and the chief macro-hypocrite Martin McGuinness is that we're here and we're not going away," he said."That is what Crip McWilliams believed and that is what he would have said if he were standing here today."