British bid to cap North murder tribunal costs

BRITISH Government-ordered inquiries into controversial killings in the North must be cost-effective, Secretary of State Paul Murphy said yesterday.

Senior or retired judges are to be appointed to head up the public probes into the murders of human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson, loyalist paramilitary boss Billy Wright and Catholic Robert Hamill, who was kicked to death.

It will be later this year before dates are set for the inquiries to begin.