Freddie Scappaticci, implicated in 14 murders and 15 abductions during the Troubles, ‘probably cost more lives than he saved’ ...

The U.K.'s security services protected a top spy within the Irish Republican Army even when he was wanted for murder, a ...

UK security services protected the spy – despite his links to more than a dozen killings, abductions and torture during the ...

The U.K.'s security services protected a top spy within the Irish Republican Army even when he was wanted for murder, a ...

Official investigation strongly criticised how the UK's intelligence agency MI5 handled the double agent during the Troubles ...

The final report into the activities of Stakeknife, the British army’s top IRA agent during the Troubles, will be released in ...

Kenova investigation lays bare how double agent and murderer was repeatedly protected at the expense of his victims ...

Freddie Scappaticci was linked to 14 murders and 15 abductions; he worked in a ruthless IRA unit known as the "nutting squad" ...

He was Stakeknife, Britain's top spy in the IRA. And he was also Freddie Scappaticci, a west Belfast man who rose through the ...

A top British spy at the heart of the IRA was flown out of Northern Ireland on holiday on a military aircraft by his army ...

The final report of a seven-year investigation, named Operation Kenova, suggests there is a case to reveal the identity of ...

MI5 has also apologised after handing over previously undisclosed material on the agent too late for it to be included in ...