Trimble spy claims plunge North into deeper crisis

ALLEGATIONS that a civil servant was spying on David Trimble for the IRA plunged the Northern Ireland peace process deeper into crisis last night.

As detectives questioned the former diary secretary in the First Minister's private office at Stormont, unionists and nationalists accused Sinn Féin of betrayal.

Confidence in the power-sharing government was shattered last month when four people were arrested and charged on suspicion of a republican espionage plot inside the Government's main offices in Belfast.