Date set for Rosemary Nelson inquiry

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Angelique Chrisafis, Ireland correspondent
Thursday March 3, 2005
The Guardian

The public inquiry into the murder of solicitor Rosemary Nelson is to begin next month, six years after she was killed when a bomb exploded beneath her car.

It will be the first of four recommended by the retired Canadian judge Peter Cory after he investigated allegations of security force collusion in the murders and said they needed further study.

The UK government has also given the green light to inquiries into the murder of the LVF leader Billy Wright, shot dead by members of the INLA inside the Maze prison in 1997, and the Roman Catholic Robert Hamill who died in hospital after being attacked by a loyalist mob in his home town of Portadown, Co Armagh, in 1997.

An inquiry into the most controversial of the murders, the shooting of Belfast solicitor Patrick Finucane in front of his family in his north Belfast home by the UFF in 1989, has been blocked by the government until all legal proceedings have been completed.
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