An IRA informer who claimed he was threatened by the alleged British agent codenamed Stakeknife has been questioned by the team of detectives investigating collusion allegations in Northern Ireland.
The man known as Kevin Fulton spent an hour with officers belonging to the squad headed by Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir John Stevens.
They asked to meet him after he alleged 57-year-old west Belfast builder Freddie Scappaticci interrogated him following a failed IRA ambush on a top detective in east Belfast in 1994.
Police arrested a number of terrorists who had been planning to ambush Chief Superintendent Derek Martindale.
Fulton claimed last week he and another member of his family were interrogated by Scappaticci amid allegations police had been tipped off in advance of the planned IRA attack.
Scappaticci, from west Belfast, has categorically denied he was a £80,000 agent for British military intelligence while a key member of the IRA's so-called internal security squad.
But Fulton's meeting in central London was the first direct contact with someone allegedly involved at the centre of the Scappaticci affair.
Fulton has denied claims he was behind newspaper allegations identifying Stakeknife but insists Scappaticci detained and questioned him as part of an IRA probe into the failed attack on Martindale.
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