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Alan Lewis- PhotopressBelfast.co.uk 26-9-2025
John Wilson leaves court on bail ahead of sentencing later after he was found guilty by a jury at Belfast Crown Court today, (Friday) on charges against him that included 'possession of explosives and attempted intimidation'.
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East Belfast GAA pipe bomb accused jailed ↗

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PACEMAKER BFST 23-08-2000:John Bingham, UVF man shot dead by the IRA.

28/01/09 Under the terms of the Eames Bradley report his family will receive £12,000 compensation..

British army informer in IRA gang which killed UVF commander John Bingham, report finds ↗

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Thames House, MI5 HQ in London

MI5 broke into Operation Kenova safe at spy agency London HQ ↗

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Freddie Scappaticci

Secure accommodation known as ‘The Rat Hole’ set up to handle Freddie Scappaticci ↗

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RUC Sergeant Sean Quinn and constables Allan McCloy and Paul Hamilton

Special Branch allowed RUC officers killed in bomb blast to travel into ‘out of bounds’ area ↗

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Kenova final report released to the public at a press conference at Stormont Hotel in east Belfast. Sir Iain Livingstone, the officer in charge of Operation Kenova, and PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher led the press conference. The report highlighted the activities of the MI5 agent Stakeknife inside the IRA from the 1970s through to the early 1990s.

Relatives pictured at the hotel during the press conference.

Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

‘A mockery’: Widespread criticism of failure to officially name Freddie Scappaticci as Stakeknife ↗

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Freddie Scappaticci

Kenova report: Freddie Scappaticci was taken on holiday by handlers to avoid police questioning ↗

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Freddie Scappaticci, who is widely believed to be the IRA agent known as Stakeknife, outside the offices of the Andersonstown News in west Belfast in 2003

£40m investigation Operation Kenova probe results in just one prosecution ↗

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