Agent 6137 | 3

Bed of Lies

The Telegraph

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Facing life in prison for murder, loyalist Brian Nelson makes a surprising confession: he is Agent 6137. When he targeted people for the UDA to assassinate, he was also working for the British. The daughter of one of his victims hunts for the truth about his life as a spy – but as she and Cara dig deeper, they find documents are missing and proof is hard to pin down.

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0:00.0	The murder of Kean Mulready Woods in January 2020 shocked the nation and everyone knew who was responsible.
0:06.7	Everyone knew who Robbie Lawler was.
0:08.4	When Lawler was shot dead in Belfast three months later, no one had any answers.
0:13.0	Robbie Lawler was out of control and something had to be done.
0:16.2	This is Double Cross, the murder of Robbie Lawler, a crime world special investigation podcast based on my new book, Web of Betrayal.
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0:36.4	It's 1990 and Cromlin Road Jail in the centre of Belfast is frigid and loud.
0:43.3	The Victorian prison has become a holding place for paramilitary fighters.
0:49.3	Angry clangs reverberate through its stone walls.
0:53.3	Walls that carry memories of torture, protests and plots to escape.
1:00.8	Brian Nelson's inner cell in the isolation wing, trembling.
1:05.7	The small man with mousy hair can't stay still under pressure,
1:09.6	and this is one of those times.
1:11.8	He knows his fingerprints are across multiple murders.
1:16.1	He was shaking because I think he thought he was untouchable.
1:21.1	No one was going to get him convicted, and all of that untouchability suddenly went.
1:29.3	Detective John Stevens has overcome a mammoth effort to get Brian in custody.
1:34.3	His office was burnt down.
1:36.3	Brian fled.
1:38.3	Then John threatened the head of the army with arrest,
1:41.3	and Brian suddenly reappeared.
1:45.2	Now he's got this slippery suspect in custody.
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