A police team investigating the British Army’s most high-ranking IRA mole has prepared evidence files for prosecutors. Operation Kenova is an independent British police probe into the activities of Stakeknife, a state-run spy who reputedly ran the IRA “nutting squad”, which interrogated and murdered suspected informers. The police team, which is led by former Bedfordshire police chief John Boutcher, said it had prepared files for Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service to assess. A statement from the investigation team said: “Those files are now in the process of being made available to the Public Prosecution Service for consideration. “A full report of Operation Kenova’s findings will be published at the conclusion of all legal proceedings.”It is understood the evidence files have not yet been passed to the PPS.

Source: Irish Examiner October 02, 2019 21:00 UTC