Finucane assassin 'could be free within months'
A loyalist assassin-turned police informer who admitted gunning down Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane could be back on the streets within months, it emerged tonight.
Ken Barrett’s guilty plea for one of the most controversial killings in three decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland intensified pressure on the British Government to hold a public inquiry based on overwhelming evidence that police and military intelligence colluded in the February 1989 shooting.
