The gunman who pleaded guilty to shooting dead the Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane boasted of another nine killings, his former police handler revealed yesterday.
Ken Barrett was described as a cold-blooded serial killer who showed no remorse for his actions and turned into an informer to gain revenge on his former
loyalist leaders.
Former detective Johnston "Jonty" Brown, recalled meeting him in 1991.
"I was responsible for running some very evil people. But none of them ever frightened me the way Barrett frightened me," he said.
"Look into Barrett's eyes and there's nothing there ... This man is a serial killer," said Brown, who took early retirement in 2001.
Barrett's tally of killings, he said, stretched into double figures.
Barrett was caught after police officers secretly recorded him making a confession. He declared: "I whacked a few people ... People say, 'How do you sleep, Ken?' I say, 'I sleep fine'."
- INDEPENDENT
