Human rights group seeks probe into Nelson murder

The North’s Human Rights Commission has called for a full public inquiry into the murder of Lurgan solicitor Rosemary Nelson in March 1999.

Mrs Nelson, who represented the Garvaghy Road Residents Committee, died after a bomb was planted under her car by loyalist paramilitaries.

The Human Rights Commission called for an inquiry this morning because, it said, the British government had breached the European Convention on Human Rights on two counts.

It said Britain failed to investigate threats against Mrs Nelson by police officers and British soldiers before her murder and also failed to adequately investigate the killing.