Council of Europe to reopen Pat Finucane murder investigation Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA
The Council of Europe is to reopen its investigation into the 1989 murder of the Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane, an attack found to have involved British state collusion.
Finucane, who represented a number of high-profile republicans, was shot dead in front of his family by loyalist gunmen in one of the most notorious killings of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
The council, which oversees the European court of human rights (ECHR), made the announcement on Friday after the UK government’s decision last November not to hold a public inquiry. It followed a meeting of the Council of Europe attended by representatives of the 47 member states.
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This week marks the 32
nd anniversary of the assassination of the Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane. In 1989 he was shot dead by UDA killers controlled by MI5 in front of his young family at his home. The British government continues to resist a judicial inquiry into the murder despite castigation from its own Supreme Court and human rights groups across the globe.
No-one in the Tory party is putting Boris Johnson under any pressure to resolve the matter.
Kitson And Counter-Revolution!
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featured by News Line on 30th April 2015.
We are producing it once again because the British state is now preparing to use Kitson methods against the working class in the UK, Ireland and elsewhere.
THIS week it emerged that retired British general Sir Frank Kitson is to be sued by the widow of a Catholic worker murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in 1973.
Eugene ‘Paddy’ Heenan was a building worker who was killed when a loyalist gang threw a grenade at the minibus taking him and 14 other workers to a building site in east Belfast.