Nelson Inquiry report to be published May 23rd

THE findings of the public inquiry into the murder of Lurgan solicitor Rosemary Nelson will be made public on May 23rd.
Secretary of State Owen Paterson said the report will be shown to the Nelson family before it is published in full.
Rosemary Nelson died on March 15th 1999 after a booby-trap bomb placed under her car exploded. Before she died, Rosemary, a human rights lawyer, told the United Nations and a US Congressional hearing that she had received death threats from the RUC.
The Lurgan lawyer came to prominence after she defended a number of high-profile cases involving republicans and became the legal representative for the Garvaghy Road Residents’ Coalition, a nationalist community group contesting the Orange Order’s determination to parade through their area to Drumcree.
Rosemary also represented the family of Robert Hamill, a Catholic kicked to death by a loyalist mob in Portadown in 1997. An armed RUC patrol at the scene refused to intervene and made no attempt to arrest the killers.