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Brian Nelson was accused of setting up the killing of republican sympathiser, Francisco Notarantonio, aged 65. to divert the UDA away from wrongly targeting "Stakeknife", Frederico Scappatici, a senior IRA member and informer for the "shadowy" FRU, the army intelligence unit.
Loyalist Sam McCrory killed retired taxi driver and father of eleven children, Notarantonio, who had been interned in 1971. He was shot dead in bed, at his home in Ballymurphy, West Belfast on 9 October 1987.
Brian Nelson was accused of setting up the killing of republican sympathiser, Francisco Notarantonio, aged 65. to divert the UDA away from wrongly targeting "Stakeknife", Frederico Scappatici, a senior IRA member and informer for the "shadowy" FRU, the army intelligence unit.
Loyalist Sam McCrory killed retired taxi driver and father of eleven children, Notarantonio, who had been interned in 1971. He was shot dead in bed, at his home in Ballymurphy, West Belfast on 9 October 1987.
