Family of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane meets with Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn [Video]

THE FAMILY OF Pat Finucane met Hilary Benn yesterday as the UK Government mulls a court request in relation to the solicitor’s murder.

Finucane, 39, was shot dead in his family home in north Belfast in February 1989 by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) in an attack found to have involved collusion with the State.

In February 2019, a Supreme Court ruling said investigations into the fatal shooting of the solicitor had not been effective and fell short of international human rights standards.

In November 2020, the UK Government again refused a public inquiry into the circumstances of Finucane’s killing.

A Belfast Court of Appeal ruling in July gave the new UK Government three weeks to state how it would carry out an investigation into the lawyer’s death in compliance with Article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

This timeline was extended as the new Labour Government considers …