'Death threats will follow me to the grave'
Published Date: 14 April 2009
An IRA informer who worked in Derry fears for his life after he was named as a prime target by the Real IRA.
Published Date: 14 April 2009
An IRA informer who worked in Derry fears for his life after he was named as a prime target by the Real IRA.
The former British Army and MI5 agent believes that dissident republican paramilitaries will "make good" on their threats to kill high profile informers - some of whom have been named alongside him in a Real IRA hitlist.
The hitlist - which also includes Derry supergrass Raymond Gilmour and Freddi Scappaticci, who formerly ran the IRA internal security uinit - was issued to a Sunday newspaper at weekend. The ex-spy, whose pseudonym is Kevin Fulton, told the 'Journal': "I have no doubt that they will whack a tout or two. They have already successfully targeted police and the British army - they're doing everything the Provisional IRA did."He also believes "there is every possibility" that the Real IRA will carry out its threat to assassinate Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness. Mr Fulton, whose real name was allegedly revealed by a Belfast newspaper several years ago, currently lives "outside Northern Ireland", but is taking the latest threat to his life "very seriously"."I have always acknowledge the threat was there - they've just come out and confirmed it. I look over my shoulder everywhere I go and I will until the day I die. This is not going to go away - this will follow me to the grave. I purposefully don't go out and socialise so as not to leave a trail."He added: "I would not take my chances walking down the street in Northern Ireland, I don't have a death wish, I'm not stupid.
