The Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams has expressed concern about the length of time it has taken the Stevens team to complete their inquiry and produce a report.

A MAJOR report into the loyalist paramilitary murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has been delayed for another six months.

Relatives of those killed and injured in the 1998 Omagh bombing are due to hold their first meeting tonight with the new police team appointed to investigate the atrocity.

A top loyalist named as the man who ordered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane’s murder could now find his own life under threat, it was claimed tonight.

Northern Ireland’s new policing structures were today under strain as Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan threatened to take legal action against the Police Ombudsman to clear his name after a damning report on the Omagh bomb.

The SDLP has demanded a full inquiry into allegations that senior RUC officers suppressed a tape-recorded confession of a loyalist admitting the murder of Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane.