A Belfast businessman has said he is quitting Northern Ireland rather than lose more hard-earned cash to a UDA extortion gang, the Sunday World can reveal.
The family of a Catholic pensioner who it’s claimed was sacrificed to protect double agent Freddie Scappaticci said yesterday they believe their father was set up by another top-ranking spy in the IRA yet to be unmasked.
State papers: ‘British intelligence are reportedly fearful that this disclosure could dwarf the Rosemary Nelson scandal,’ note Department of Justice files
Of all the crimes committed in Northern Ireland, Pat Finucane's murder is the one which successive British governments, of whatever hue, have most resisted investigating. The 1989 murder in Belfast is examined again in a new piece for the New York Times by Megan Stack.