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 ...

Freddie Scappaticci left Northern Ireland when identified by the media as Stakeknife in 2003 Will the Kenova report say anything about Scappaticci's contacts with the IRA in Belfast when he came ...

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 ...

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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 revelations in 2003 that the head of the IRA’s internal security unit, Freddie Scappaticci, was a British spy, “traumatised” republicans, then-taoiseach Bertie Ahern and British prime ...

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 ...

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 ...