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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

‘I’m not going to hide again’: Stakeknife report met with relief by victims’ families

Claire Dignam raises a hand as she speaks while seated at the press conference
Claire Dignam, whose husband, Johnny, was killed in 1992, said: ‘I don’t care what anyone said about him in the past. My husband was innocent.’ Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA

When Freddie Scappaticci’s “nutting squad” murdered suspected IRA informers the dead men’s families entered a singular hell.

To have a father, brother or son dumped by a roadside, bound and hooded, with signs of torture and shot in the head, brought shock and grief.

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