Stakeknife investigator: ‘If I wanted to be popular I would have got a Labrador’

British police officer Jon Boutcher says he would be furious if there are no prosecutions

Bedfordshire Police Chief Constable Jon Boutcher speaks to the media in Belfast to give an update on the Stakeknife investigation.Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Bedfordshire Police Chief Constable Jon Boutcher speaks to the media in Belfast to give an update on the Stakeknife investigation.Photograph: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

“If I wanted to be popular I would have got a Labrador, ” said Bedfordshire chief constable Jon Boutcher who is leading an investigation into one of the British army’s most senior moles within the IRA, Freddie Scappaticci, the agent known as Stakeknife.

He is unlikely to be popular with the British security force establishment in all its manifestations considering how deep is his investigation into the dark secrets of Stakeknife.

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