A loyalist awaiting trial for the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has been moved to a jail in England, it was confirmed today.

The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has expressed his disappointment at the British government’s decision to delay a public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.

Undercover soldiers at the centre of the Pat Finucane murder investigation are prepared to face any public inquiry into the affair, it was revealed today.

PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde has warned that public inquiries into alleged collusion in four controversial murders could undermine public confidence in his force.

Ulster Unionist Party leader David Trimble has come under pressure to retract allegations he made yesterday about murdered solicitors Pat Finucane and Rosemary Nelson.

The decision to house loyalist and republican prisoners in the same block was enough to suggest the prison authorities colluded in the murder of Billy Wright, the Cory Report said today.

CORY: INQUIRIES MAY NOT BEGIN UNTIL AUTUMN

The British government today flew in the face of Judge Peter Cory’s recommendations in its decision to postpone the public inquiry into the murder of Patrick Finucane until after court action is completed.

The Government today expressed disappointment that a public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane will be delayed.

The widow of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane today accused the British government of delaying tactics in its refusal to establish a public inquiry into her husband’s murder.

The British government is to press ahead with inquiries into three controversial killings, Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy said today.

The British government was today accused of trying to delay an inquiry into security force collusion in the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane by loyalists.

The British government is due to release today a report on four controversial killings in Northern Ireland.

The British government was under pressure today from human rights activists to order separate public independent inquiries into four controversial killings in the North.

SDLP leader Mark Durkan has called on the British government to publish the full Cory Report rather than a censored version of the document.

A report into four controversial murders in Northern Ireland is to be released by the end of the month, the British government confirmed today.

The family of murdered Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane launched new court action against the British government today in a bid to force it to set up a public inquiry immediately into the killing.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams today claimed that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has “no intention” of publishing an anxiously awaited report on four of Ulster’s most controversial killings.

Sinn Féin is demanding the immediate publication of the Cory Report.

The family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane were attempting today to force the British government through the courts to release a report into his controversial killing.

Judge Peter Cory is reported to have contacted the British government to register his anger that it has not published the four northern sections of the report.

SDLP leader Mark Durkan has called on the British government to publish the Cory Report into four controversial murders in the North in the 1980s and 1990s.

A public inquiry is to be held into allegations of collusion between members of the gardaí and the IRA killers of two RUC officers, based on the Cory Report, the Government confirmed today.

SDLP leader Mark Durkan has called on the British government to publish the Cory reports into four controversial murders in the North in the 1980s and 1990s.

Two reports probing allegations of collusion between Irish security forces and IRA killers are to due to be published today.