Barra McGrory, Northern Ireland’s director of public prosecutions, told the BBC: “People who carried out these murders were not properly investigated or brought to justice” Niall Carson/PAAn informer was shot by the IRA despite a British spy warning that he would be killed, it has been claimed. Joe Fenton, an estate agent, was providing information to the Royal Ulster Constabulary’s special branch but was suspected by the IRA of being an informer. His death has now been linked to the activities of Stakeknife, the British army mole who led the IRA’s so-called nutting squad which interrogated and murdered suspected spies. Mr Fenton, 35, a father of four, was shot in February 1989 shortly after Stakeknife left the house where he was being held by the squad. Panorama claims that Stakeknife told his own army handlers that Mr Fenton would not survive but no action appeared to have been taken to prevent…

Source: The Times April 10, 2017 23:37 UTC