https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp35e2g254po

An independent public inquiry has been ordered into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989.

The 39-year-old was shot at his home in Belfast by loyalist paramilitaries in front of his wife and children.

Several examinations of the case has found evidence of state collusion in the killing.

The inquiry was announced by Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn in a Commons statement on Wednesday.

Benn met members of the Finucane family on Tuesday, when it is believed he informed them of the decision.

by Michael_of_Derry

14 comments

  1. This could be a massive moment to show the extent of the British states use of terrorists and death squads to silence critics and shut down dissent.

    But I’m also very sceptical, the British state has effectively used long drawn out legal processes to keep victims from getting answers and jusitice.

  2. What is the point of this? The Brits investigating themselves again, does anyone think they won’t lie/equivocate/victim-blame/conceal evidence like they’ve done at every other inquiry into themselves?

    Cases like the Finucane assassination should be before the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Expose BritIntel/RUC/British Army.

  3. The Finucane family will be very long in the tooth before they get the answers they want, if they do at all. It’s fairly clear what happened in this case and others.

  4. The wages bill for more teachers and doctors gone on more bullshit historical political nonsense.

  5. The Brits marking their own homework essentially

  10. Ah great another spectacular waste of money and time. Sure lets focus on every killing that ever happened here and never, and i mean never, move past the past.

  11. Lest we forget –

    Three weeks before Pat Finucane’s murder, Tory MP Douglas Hogg stated in parliament that certain solicitors in Northern Ireland are “unduly sympathetic” to terrorist organisations. He was obviously referring to the IRA, since the UDA were not a proscribed organisation at the time.

    At the behest of the Irish Government, the Irish Ambassador in Londond asked Cabinet secretary Robin Butler to issue a statement “correcting any impression” that the British Government considered lawyers defending paramilitaries as acting on anything other than a professional basis.

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    Source – [https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/files-reveal-taoiseachs-concern-at-claim-lawyers-unduly-sympathetic-to-ira/38817620.html](https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/files-reveal-taoiseachs-concern-at-claim-lawyers-unduly-sympathetic-to-ira/38817620.html)

    The RUC roadblocks which were in place 100 yards from Finucane’s home were removed 1 hour before his murder.

    In the 1991 Dispatches documentary on the ***ULCC / Ulster Resistance / DUP,*** a member of the “Co-ordinating committee” linked to the so called “Inner Circle” of RUC / Loyalist murder gangs stated that Finucane’s murder was planned at an Orange Hall in Finaghy two weeks prior; one week after Douglas Hogg’s comment in parliament, and that information was provided to them at that meeting by **British Army intelligence**.

    It’s not even a case of having to join up the dots. Finucane would’ve exposed collusion between the British Government and Loyalist death squads in the murder of innocent civilians. A Tory Minister felt outraged by this and smeared him, based on information passed to him by the NIO which we are led to believe came from the RUC despite the RUC’s public statement that they did not have any reason to suspect Finucane as being involved in republicanism.

  12. ” was killed in 1989 after being targeted by Brian Nelson who passed information about him to his killer. Nelson was a paid agent of British military intelligence. The man who supplied the weapon used to kill PF was a special branch officer , and when the getaway driver was arrested he, too, was recruited and not prosecuted.

    According to police evidence to the limited inquiry into Finucane’s murder by Sir Desmond de Silva, ” The military allowed him (Nelson) to continue his work even though he had clearly reached a point of involvement which was undoubtedly criminal “.

    *The State of Secrecy by RNT*

    [Richard Norton-Taylor · Particularly Anodyne: One bomb in London (lrb.co.uk)](https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n14/richard-norton-taylor/particularly-anodyne)

  14. Garda /Irish government collusion also common knowledge

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