The agent, who is not Stakeknife, had assisted the British security forces by giving lectures to 'new agent handlers and other security force personnel'
The agent, who is not Stakeknife, had assisted the British security forces by giving lectures to ‘new agent handlers and other security force personnel’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.
The training presentations included alleged admissions to serious criminal offences, including murder, but the British agent was not investigated or charged at the time for any crime.A file on the alleged admissions of the agent during his training presentations was one of 35 passed to Northern Ireland’s prosecution service but it has now been dropped.
Kevin Winters, who represents the families of victims affected by the activities of British agents in the IRA, said the failure to prosecute the individual was “seismic in significance”. Winters is seeking a judicial review of the prosecution service decision not to prosecute anyone over the 1983 murder of Anthony Braniff, 22, who was falsely accused by the IRA of being a British informant.
Officers found “no evidence to suggest that the authorities considered holding these agents liable for their criminal acts”.
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