Gerard Hodgins

A FORMER IRA prisoner, jailed along with former Sinn Féin director of publicity Danny Morrison, has disputed claims that double agent Freddie Scappaticci was stood down from the organisation in 1990 under suspicion that he was an informer.

THE Northern Ireland Office (NIO) has said it "understands and shares" public concern over a six-figure compensation pay-out for eight people who had convictions quashed in a case linked to an alleged IRA double-agent.

A FORMER IRA man who had convictions quashed in a kidnap case linked to Freddie Scappaticci received an offer to settle a compensation case on the same day the police investigation into Stakeknife was announced.