Exclusive: Ex-double agent allegedly admitted to murder during training presentations to members of the security services
who allegedly admitted to murder while giving training presentations to members of the security services will not be prosecuted.
The case was subsequently investigated by officers working under chief constable Jon Boutcher, who until March this year led Operation Kenova’s inquiries into Stakeknife, a notorious agent named in 2003 as former IRA security enforcer Freddie Scappaticci. A PPSNI spokesperson said: “We received an investigation file, and after careful consideration of all available evidence, a decision not to prosecute was taken on evidential grounds. We are unable to make any further comment in relation to this matter.”
“Having just learned of this news we ought to be shocked but, to be blunt, we aren’t. The latest decision is entirely consistent with all other similar decision-making to date.” Officers have examined 101 murders and abductions associated with the IRA’s “nutting squad”, a unit in which Scappaticci was a leading figure responsible for interrogating and torturing those suspected of passing information to the British security services.Operation Kenova found that “preventable and serious crimes took place” and that these included “murders committed by agents, including cases in which one agent murdered another”, according to an interim report published in March.
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