A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of Stephen Brannigan and the attempted murder of a priest in Co Down. Hugh Malone, 30, of no fixed address but from the Belfast area, appeared via ...

the High Court has ruled. Freddie Scappaticci, who changed his name to Frank Cowley in 2020, was believed to be Britain’s top agent inside the IRA. Scappaticci, from west Belfast, had always denied ...