Freddie Scappaticci, who died in April, had always denied that he was the agent given the codename Stakeknife. Stakeknife is thought to have been linked to more than 20 murders during the Troubles ...

The revelations in 2003 that the head of the IRA’s internal security unit, Freddie Scappaticci, was a British spy, ...

Freddie Scappaticci once told one of his captives that if he had his way he would be hung upside down in a cowshed and no-one would hear him squeal as he was skinned alive. The would-be victim ...

The emergence of reports in 2003 about a high-level British secret agent in the IRA, known as Stakeknife, left republican leaders in Northern Ireland “paralysed and damaged”, according to ...

Stakeknife was widely reported to have been Freddie Scappaticci, who headed the IRA’s feared internal security unit, nicknamed the “Nutting Squad”. Scappaticci died on April 11, 2023 ...

The agent is widely accepted to have been the late Freddie Scappaticci. Stakeknife has been linked to 14 murders and 15 abductions while working for the British Army within the IRA. The head of ...

Stakeknife was widely reported to have been Freddie Scappaticci, who headed the IRA’s feared internal security unit, nicknamed the “Nutting Squad”. Scappaticci died on April 11, 2023 ...

Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci was exposed as the notorious agent in 2003, although his identity has never been officially confirmed. In March this year an interim report published by Operation ...

Freddie Scappaticci, a former Belfast bricklayer, has been widely named as the agent codenamed Stakeknife. The agent has been linked to 14 murders and 15 abductions while working for the British ...

Confidential files made public by the National Archives reveal the disclosure about the British spy — who was widely believed to be the late Freddie Scappaticci — rocked Sinn Féin and the ...