Pat Finucane’s family in fresh demand for independent inquiry

Pat Finucane

THE British Government is reported to have bowed to the demands of the Finucane family and is set to announce a full inquiry into the 1989 killing of human rights lawyer Pat Finucane.
The reports indicate that the British Government will reveal plans for an extensive public inquiry into the Finucane killing, a move British governments have previously and strongly resisted.
Reacting to the speculation and seven years on from a report by Canadian Judge Peter Cory that found the killing warranted an inquiry, John Finucane, Pat’s son, said:
“The family deserves a final decision 22 years after the murder.”
Pat Finucane was shot dead in his North Belfast home by a UDA death squad within weeks of British Cabinet Minister Douglas Hogg telling the British parliament that there were solicitors in the North who were “unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA”.