Consideration of Scappaticci file at ‘advanced stage’ when he died

Consideration of files examining evidence of serious criminality against Freddie Scappaticci was at an advanced staged when he died in 2023, prosecutors have said.

However, Northern Ireland’s director of public prosecutions Stephen Herron has said he cannot confirm whether a prosecution would have been brought.

Mr Herron was responding following the publication of the interim findings of into the operation of the Army’s top agent inside the during the Troubles.