Donaldson likely shot to avenge assassin

FORMER associates of a feared IRA assassin killed by the SAS may have murdered Denis Donaldson, security sources claim.

Detectives believe the British spy was gunned down to avenge the shooting of Jim Lynagh.

Lynagh, 32, was among eight Provisionals ambushed as they tried to blow up a police station at Loughgall in Armagh in May 1987.