Inquiry should have sufficiently wide terms of reference and should facilitate panel of judges with human rights law experience, Finucane family believes
The family of murdered Belfast solicitor and human rights lawyer Pat Finucane have called for the inquiry to be established into his 1989 killing to be “fully independent, wide-ranging and publicly transparent”.
The family emphasised, through their testimony, the absolute necessity of an inquiry that would be conducted in a manner Michael Finucane described as “fully independent, wide-ranging and publicly transparent”. Specifically, the family believes the inquiry should facilitate a panel of judges with appropriate experience in human rights law and that the terms of reference should be of sufficiently wide scope to encompass the issues relevant to the murder of their father and on the policy of collusion with loyalist paramilitaries.
Katherine Finucane told the gathering it “wasn’t just my brothers and me who had their father stolen from them, but our children too. So, I like to tell my daughter what her Granda was like – he liked to play football and didn’t like to lose, he liked a joke and a laugh and he often played practical jokes on his siblings.”
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