Kenneth Austen; born c. 1941) is a convicted armed robber and gaol-breaker who claimed to be a Secret Intelligence Service/Official IRA double agent.
[3] Littlejohn claims he went on the run, first to London, where he made contact with a police officer who showed him his arrest warrant and advised him to move to Dublin.
[2] Pamela, Lady Onslow was an aristocratic divorcee who occupied part of her time with the ex-Borstal organisation "Teamwork Associates" in London.
Lady Onslow was made aware of information in Littlejohn's possession and contacted her friend, Lord Carrington.
On 22 November 1971, a meeting was arranged at Onslow's London flat between Littlejohn and British minister Geoffrey Johnson Smith.
The Times claimed that, in fact, they did join the Officials but were dismissed in August 1972 when suspected of robberies in Newry for their own personal gain.
[7] On 18 September 1972, Edmund Woolsey, a 32-year old Catholic man, was killed in South Armagh by a booby trap attached to his car, while two of his friends were injured.
[8] In October 1972 the Allied Irish Banks branch in Grafton Street, Dublin, was robbed of £67,000; at the time the largest haul in Ireland.
[4][11] At the extradition proceedings the brothers tried but failed to prevent a prosecution by the Special Criminal Court under the Offences against the State Acts 1939.
Watt himself was arrested later that afternoon, but claimed he was released, on Detective Superintendent Pat Cooney's orders, as he could not be prosecuted as Littlejohn's crime was committed outside of the UK.