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Geraldine Finucane (centre) and her two sons Michael (right), and John Finucane (left)
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THE son of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has renewed the calls for a full public inquiry into the killing after newly declassified documents revealed that the British government knew his life was in danger.
Michael Finucane said the “murky truth” behind the killing remained shocking after Irish state papers revealed the government warned Downing Street of the risk to solicitors’ lives in the north of Ireland.
Concerns were raised by the Irish government with then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher four days before loyalist paramilitaries shot Mr Finucane 14 times in front of his children at his Belfast home in February 1989.
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