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The British government has ruled out launching a public inquiry into the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane by loyalist paramilitaries.
Following a decades-long campaign for justice by the lawyer’s family, the Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis told Westiminster yesterday that he had decided not to establish an inquiry.
Mr Finucane was shot dead in his family home in Belfast in 1989 by the Ulster Defence Association in an attack found to have involved collusion with the state.
The 39-year-old had represented IRA members.
It emerged that Brian Nelson, a member of the Ulster Defence Association who organised the group’s attacks, had been an agent of the British state.
Following the shocking revelation, the British government promised in 2001 to launch a public inquiry into the killing, but backtracked.
Last year the Supreme Court ruled that the government had failed to hold an “effective investigation” into the lawyer’s death.
