Gordon Carrera

And it, for State Knife, will be the most significant because Sandy Lynch is taken to a house in West Belfast.

It's the same house that Joe Fenton has just been held in earlier.

He's pushed down onto a bed as he hears the words IRA security.

He's blindfolded, placed in a chair facing a wall.

He doesn't see who does it initially, but Scappaticci then checks him, this I find interesting, with a bug detector.

So they have some kind of bug detector they've got hold of, which I guess is looking for radio frequencies being emitted.

And Lynch hears a voice, because he's blindfolded, but he hears a voice.

And he recognizes it as Scappaticci saying the device is going haywire.

But the interrogation continues, which I kind of think is a little bit odd in that detail.

And Scappaticci tells him...

He's going to be hanging upside down in a cow shed until he confesses.

Now, there are two teams doing the interrogation and they take turns.

But Scappaticci all this time is keeping his handlers up to speed about events in the coming hours.

And here's what's interesting.

Lynch is going to be saved.

But the reason is because he's effectively being used as bait in a trap to lure in senior Republicans because the Republicans have decided that they want Lynch to do a press conference in which he admits to having been forced to be an informer.

and then making allegations linking the security forces with this policy of shoot to kill.

So they've decided they can kind of, rather than just kill Lynch, they can use him for publicity.

And what that means is that senior Republicans are going to kind of, from the political side of the movement,

are going to come in to talk to him about that.