Denis Donaldson: PSNI 'failed to properly evaluate' threat

Key Facts

• By Julian O'Neill BBC News NI Home Affairs Correspondent Image source, Donaldson family Image caption, Denis Donaldson was shot dead in April 2006 months after he was exposed as a Security Service spy Police failed to properly evaluate the threat informer Denis Donaldson was under before he was shot dead in County Donegal, a report has found.
• His family said the police had been negligent in a duty of care to him "for reasons that remain unexplained".
• The 55 year old, who once held a key administrative role for Sinn Féin at Stormont, admitted in December 2005 that he had been working for MI5 and the police for 20 years.
• Image caption, Mr Donaldson was shot dead at a cottage in Glenties, County Donegal Two weeks before his killing, the Sunday World newspaper published a story on him that included a photograph of him standing outside the property.

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