Peter Keeley, who operated as an IRA mole for UK security services under the name Kevin Fulton, has been working for the former English Defense League leader as a ‘surveillance officer’ since 2020, secretly tracking and recording persons of interest. including Nick Lowles, chief executive of anti-fascist campaign Hope not Hate. In June, Keeley was with Robinson – real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who has convictions for fraud, assault, stalking, using threatening behavior and contempt of court – when they confronted Lowes outside his home. “Keeley spent days watching my house and videotaping our movements,” Lowles said. “He parked in the streets around my house, filming me with a camera hidden in a coffee cup sitting on his dashboard. There were moments when he tried to follow me on foot.” Under the pseudonym Fulton, Keeley spent more than a decade inside the IRA for British intelligence, first as a bomb maker and then as a member of the notorious internal security team, rising through the terror group’s ranks to become one of its most important informants MI5 within the paramilitary organization. He was hailed as a hero by some when his role was finally revealed, but it was not without controversy. Keeley later admitted that he targeted and bombed the cause, often with the knowledge of his British handlers. In his new book, Tommy, which is published this Monday, Lowles reveals that in early 2020, Keeley joined Robinson’s team, collecting information on alleged child sex offenders in Telford, Shropshire. According to Lowles, the ex-MI5 agent was introduced to the project by Richard Inman, an ex-soldier who was allegedly part of a special unit in Northern Ireland. Inman was one of the leaders of Veterans Against Terrorism, an anti-Islam group that emerged after the 2017 terror attacks and after the break-up of Robinson’s Islamophobic EDL. Keeley’s apparent role was to monitor, according to the book, often using a white van, which was equipped with dark windows, curtains and multiple camera and video mounts. Sources close to Robinson told Lawles that it included a camera in a custom coffee cup, which he would leave on his dashboard. However, when targeting Lowles he claims Robinson and Keeley chose more direct tactics: they challenged him outside his home. The idea that a former IRA bomb maker is sitting outside my house about Lennon is deeply disturbing, Nick Lowles, Hope not Hate “The clash continued for 35 minutes. Lennon [Robinson] he was shouting questions at me, taking videos with his phone. Keeley initially stood behind filming a video camera, before returning to his vehicle and following at close range as I tried to get off the road.’ It is not known if Keeley is contracted to work for Robinson or if he has been paid. In Keeley’s autobiography, Double Agent, a foreword by a former special forces soldier says: “Kevin Fulton was a British agent who was actively encouraged to take part in operations that were immoral and illegal. In fact, he was given permission to kill by British military intelligence, through its secret wing, the Force Research Unit (FRU). Nick Lowles says Keeley would film outside his home with a hidden camera. Photo: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy “Don’t be under any illusion that Fulton was involved in operations that resulted in assassinations with full knowledge of the FRU. His cops knew it. His military men knew it. The British state knew it. And later, so did the families of his victims.” Lawles said: “The idea that a former IRA bomb maker and someone involved in the deaths of so many people is sitting outside my house for Lennon is deeply disturbing.” He also called on the government to review any deal to house the former secret agent. “There are huge questions that remain about Keeley’s past and even current connections with the security services and what his handlers knew about his illegal activities.” During his time within the IRA, Keeley operated primarily within the South Down brigade, as well as focusing on intense IRA activity in South Armagh. The former British spy currently faces up to 25 charges in connection with a series of paramilitary killings and attacks which, if brought to court, threaten to blow the lid on what the British government knew in advance of his illegal activities. In his autobiography, Keeley claims to have passed on information about a planned attack while meeting MI5 operatives in London. Keeley has never been charged with any offenses related to the attack. The Observer made several attempts to contact Keeley but he did not respond.
