A veteran Sinn Fein figure has been expelled by the party which accused him of being a “British agent”.

Charges of involvement in an alleged IRA spy ring against the party’s former Stormont head of administration, Denis Donaldson, were dropped by the Crown.

Party leader Gerry Adams claimed he was about to be “outed” by the same “securocrats” who set him up as a spy.

The government said the October 2002 Stormont raid was solely to prevent paramilitary intelligence gathering.

Northern Ireland’s power-sharing executive collapsed following the arrests of three men, who had all charges against them dropped last week.

The Northern Ireland Office said in a statement on Friday that they “completely reject any allegation that the police operation in October 2002 was for any reason other than to prevent paramilitary intelligence gathering”.

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