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Gordon Carrera

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

I mean, it's kind of wild, isn't it?

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

Yeah, he's taken to court.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

Yeah.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

4th of December 2018, sits in the dock wearing green tracksuit bottoms and a scruffy blue fleece.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

I mean, at Westminster Magistrates Court.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

And he pleads guilty to possessing this material.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

And he's sentenced to three months in custody, suspended for 12 months.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

Now, again, the details of this are...

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

It's just the weirdness of it, I think.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

The court here, Scappaticci, told police he was not sexually interested in animals and preferred women.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

Again, apologies for our listeners, with big breasts.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

But he then says he wasn't doing anyone any real harm and he had depression and had been to, quote, the depths.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

Now, this is also where it goes even weirder.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

I mean, this is a trigger warning, I think, which did apply to the families of people who died at his hands.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

Because the magistrate says, you've not been before the court for 50 years, and that's good character in my book.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

I mean... The magistrate doesn't know who he is, though, does he?

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

Well, I mean, it's been in the newspapers, you know, that Freddie Scantici is... I mean, I guess the magistrate, she's prosecuting him for the pornography, rather.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

It's true that he's... You know, the last thing we knew was in the 70s, wasn't it?

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

When he got done for... I think got fined for a fight.

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152. Britain’s Man Inside the IRA: Unmasking the Traitor (Ep 4)

But, you know, the Canova interim report goes, these remarks frustrated many victims and families, and I can understand why.