Belfast family seek proof of double agent's death
The family of a man killed by the Ulster Defence Association in May 1988 is to take legal action to force the British government to prove that a loyalist double agent involved in the murder is dead.
The informer, Brian Nelson, is reported to have died of a heart attack in the United States or Canada on April 14, but his family has still not been officially informed of his death.
Mr Nelson was a paid informer for the British Army and a UDA intelligence agent. He is believed to have provided information in the murder of Belfast man Terry McDaid in front of his family in May 1988.
Nelson's death was reported four days before the Stevens inquiry into collusion between the British Army and loyalist paramilitaries published its latest report.
The McDaid family's solicitor said he would have been a material witness in their compensation claim against the British government.
