RUC encouraged Finucane murder, claims loyalist

Solicitor Pat Finucane would be alive today if members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary had not encouraged loyalists to shoot him, a top loyalist has claimed.

RUC encouraged Finucane murder, claims loyalist
Wed, 19 Jun, 2002 - 07:22

Solicitor Pat Finucane would be alive today if members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary had not encouraged loyalists to shoot him, a top loyalist has claimed.

Ken Barrett, a loyalist paramilitary questioned about Mr Finucane’s murder in Belfast, said a policeman urged him at a secret rendezvous to gun the lawyer down.

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