Kenova has not failed us, says daughter of IRA victim

A woman whose mother was abducted and murdered by the IRA has insisted that Operation Kenova has not failed victims due to a lack of prosecutions.

The body of Belfast woman Caroline Moreland, a 34-year-old Catholic mother of three, was found near Rosslea, Co Fermanagh, in July 1994.

Operation Kenova, a major investigation into the Army’s top agent in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, is due to deliver its interim report on Friday.

Jon Boutcher, who is now Chief Constable of the PSNI, previously led Kenova, which probed the activities of the agent Stakeknife within the Provisional IRA.

If these cases had been properly investigated at the time there could have been prosecutions.

Stakeknife was part of the IRA’s internal security unit and Kenova examined crimes such as murder and torture, and the role played by the security services, including MI5.

The agent was widely believed to be west Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, who was in his 70s when he died last year.

Last week the Public Prosecution Service announced that no prosecutions would be pursued after consideration of the last batch of files from the investigation.

Caroline Moreland’s daughter Shauna was 10-years-old at the time of her mother’s death.