Son of murdered lawyer denies family getting preferential treatment

Geraldine Finucane, the widow of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, with her son John Finucane, during a press conference at St Comgall’s – Ionad Eileen Howell centre in Belfast (Niall Carson/PA)

John Finucane has rejected any suggestion his family has received preferential treatment with the granting of a public inquiry into his father’s murder.

Mr Finucane, a Sinn Féin MP for north Belfast, was responding to criticism voiced by unionist politicians of the Government’s decision to establish an independent inquiry into the shooting of solicitor Pat Finucane by loyalist paramilitaries in 1989.