There's a potential assertion that killings linked to Stakeknife - one of the Army's top agents in the IRA - were preventable, a lawyer representing relatives of some of those killed by the IRA's so-called nutting squad tells BBCSpotlightNI.
By Jennifer O'LearyThe man suspected of being one of the British Army's top agents within the IRA admitted in 1990 that he had shot dead a suspected informer.
By 1990 Freddie Scappaticci had become the IRA's chief spy catcher within its internal security unit. Spotlight has spoken to Gerard Hodgins, a former IRA prisoner, who was also one of the individuals in the house where Sandy Lynch was being held. A police fingerprint expert said he was certain that the imprint was made by "Frederick Scappaticci".Image caption,Sandy Lynch, who was a police informer, went on to give evidence in court before he entered a protection programme.
Sandy Lynch's deposition also included graphic remarks that he said Freddie Scappaticci had made about the manner of Joe Fenton's death. Those at the top of the IRA know exactly when they cast their spy catcher into the cold but Freddie Scappaticci did not meet the same end brutally exacted on others.
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