Kevin Fulton, a Newry man who infiltrated the IRA and Real IRA for British military intelligence, says he intends reporting the Children for Peace, a charity set up to help victims of the Northern Ireland Troubles living in Britain, to the charity commissioner.
He alleges that the charity discriminated against him by vetting him with the Northern Ireland Office. Fulton said he applied for help from the trust in January because of the trauma he suffered after being cast adrift by his intelligence handlers and placed under threat of death by the IRA.
Children for Peace, also known as the Warrington Fund, was set up in memory of Tim Parry and Jonathan Ball, two boys killed by an IRA booby trap bomb in 1993.
Fulton, a former British soldier who was asked to leave the army and work undercover, lives in a safe house supplied by MI5 in Britain. He was warned by the PSNI that he faced a risk of assassination if he returns to Northern Ireland.
He is suing the Ministry of Defence for a pension and a lump sum to allow him to start a new life with his wife. He is also seeking a judicial review of the resettlement package given to him by the Northern Ireland Office and PSNI.
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Classified court papers submitted by the Northern Ireland Office say that Fulton had put himself at risk by telling Children for Peace that he lived in Britain. The department argued that he had breached security, reducing his entitlement to make a claim against it.
The foundation says it was only trying to assess Fulton’s suitability for a study into victims of the conflict when it asked the Northern Ireland Office to vet him.
Fulton says the trust should not have contacted the Northern Ireland Office without consulting him and that, even after it had done so, the victims’ liaison unit should not have passed on details to the security authorities who he is suing.