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 ...

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 ...

They asked to meet him after he alleged 57-year-old west Belfast builder Freddie Scappaticci interrogated him following a failed IRA ambush on a top detective in east Belfast in 1994. Police ...

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 ...

Alleged spy Freddie Scappaticci should be treated as innocent until proven guilty, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adam has said. After a week of intense debate over allegations that the 57-year-old ...

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 ...

The former double agent, code-named Stakeknife, died in 2023 at the age of 77. The IRA enforcer, who rose to head its internal security department - the so-called Nutting Squad - turned British ...