Finucane family wins Government backing

THE Government last night promised the family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane it would not move one iota from its support for a full independent inquiry into his killing.

Foreign affairs minister Dermot Ahern met the widow and son of Mr Finucane at Government Buildings for the first time in Dublin yesterday.

He said he would continue the government’s campaign to have an independent inquiry into the brutal murder of the solicitor in 1989 by the Ulster Defence Association (UDA).