British agent who infiltrated IRA arrested over two murders

A BRITISH agent who spied on the IRA was being questioned last night about two murders in the North.

The 46-year-old man, from Newry, Co Down, who uses the pseudonym Kevin Fulton, is being held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.

He was arrested in east London and flown to Belfast to be interrogated about the murders — one involving the son of an IRA commander who was shot dead in a so-called punishment shooting that apparently went wrong, and the second of a soldier blown up by a bomb near the border.

Detectives decided to arrest him when details of the killings were revealed in a book. It claimed that Fulton worked undercover as an army agent within the Provisionals.

Fulton has been living away from the North for several years after claiming he was ditched by his former military handlers. He is currently seeking compensation after alleging that the army reneged on a deal.

It’s understood that he can be detained without charge until the weekend, although detectives can seek legal approval to hold him longer.

Fulton is being questioned about the murders of:

Eoin Morley, 23, an ex-IRA man who later joined a republican splinter group and who was dragged from his girlfriend’s home in Newry in April 1990 and shot in a so-called punishment attack.

His mother claimed he was the victim of an IRA vendetta against her late husband Davy.

Royal Irish Ranger Cyril Smith, 21, who was killed by a IRA bomb six months after the Morley shooting. He was blown up as he ran to alert other soldiers at a permanent vehicle checkpoint on the main Belfast-Dublin road close to border outside Newry.

Fulton worked undercover for military intelligence, MI5 and Customs and Excise for more than 20 years while a member of the IRA, but he claimed the authorities went back on a deal to give him a property, a new identity and eventually a cash settlement after his undercover activities ended.

Three days before a Real IRA bomb killed 29 people in Omagh, Co Tyrone, in August 1998, he claimed he told his handlers that terrorists were planning an attack.