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 ...

Consideration of files examining evidence of serious criminality against Freddie Scappaticci was at an advanced staged when he died in 2023, prosecutors have said. However, Northern Ireland’s ...

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 ...

Stakeknife is a Second Captains & Little Wing production for BBC Sounds.

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 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 ...