Gordon Carrera

There's new legislation which comes in, there's the Legacy Act 2023, which is looking at giving a partial amnesty for those involved in the troubles.

And this is one of the big questions, which is should people be prosecuted?

So you're not talking about Stakenife himself, we'll come to him in a second, but should those officers who handled him be prosecuted for their role?

And one of the frustrations will be that by the time Canova finally reports, even though it finds that there is evidence of a case to answer against some former Fru officers,

you know, the decision is it's too late to be able to prosecute them.

And that, you know, that tension is there in the inquiry and the timelines.

And I think crucially, we should get back to Scappaticci himself, because by the time that final report comes out, Scappaticci himself is dead.

Yeah.

I mean, Henry Hemming in his book, you know, writes about Scappaticci became increasingly lonely.

He'd spend long hours at home on his Lenovo laptop looking at websites devoted to cars, porn, we'll come back to that, maps, combat politics, football, all the British army.

After 2016, this is an interesting fact, he would also visit the website of Operation Canova, the police investigation into him and his activities, because he knows one day they might come for him.

Now, his father dies only in 2017, buried supposedly with an Italian flag on the coffin.

Scapp supposedly turns up for that, but when Scappaticci's wife, Sheila, dies, it's said that he doesn't turn up for that and the children don't want him there.

But the crucial thing is he's watching that Canova inquiry, and they are going for him, and they want to get him.

This is a fascinating bit of the case.

They arrest him in January 2018, so the Canova team.

He says nothing when he's questioned about the Canova cases.

But they get that laptop from his sitting room.

I mean, this is where, again, if it couldn't get weirder, the laptop is found to contain 329 images of extreme pornography spread.

specifically bestiality, which for those who are not aware, sorry for anyone here of a sensitive disposition, warning, sex with animals.