Captain Margaret Walshaw was section head of the British military Force Research Unit (FRU) in the north of Ireland. Walshaw ordered the murder of Belfast pensioner, Francisco Notorantonio a 66-year-old retired West Belfast taxi driver on 9th October 1987.
The FRU was a high level British intelligence unit tasked with handling undercover agents in northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. It was set up in the early 1980s to take over previously unco-ordinated agent activities, placing them all under a single professional command structure.
The lawless misconduct of FRU has come to light over the last two years as a result of investigations into controversial assassinations by Protestant terrorist organisations, including the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). The enquiries originally focussed on the slaying of prominent republican civil rights lawyer Pat Finucane in February 1989.
At the time she ran agent Brian Nelson and supervised his murderous activities, she was a non commissioned officer (sergeant) in Britain’s Intelligence Corps.
The FRU has since been renamed the JCI (NI) - Joint Collection Unit (Northern Ireland)
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