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| Owen Bowcott |
The Council of Europe has issued a stinging rebuke to the UK over its failure to enforce judgments by the European court of human rights (ECHR) involving security force killings and suspected collusion cases in Northern Ireland.
In a resolution published on Thursday, the Council of Europe, which oversees the ECHR, expressed “profound concern” at the government’s failure to effectively investigate legacy cases from the Troubles, including the 1989 murder of the Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.
The committee of ministers made a formal request for the UK to provide further information on several cases by 25 January. It comes only days after the Northern Ireland secretary, Brandon Lewis, refused to hold a public inquiry into Finucane’s death.
The solicitor was shot dead by loyalist gunmen in front of his wife and three children. It later emerged that Brian Nelson, who directed the attacks, was an agent controlled by the British army’s force research unit.
Odd how the murder of Judges ceased when Finucane was removed. Just another one of those conincidences I suppose.
ReplyDeleteSteve - you are acquiring a taste for innuendo or smear which ruins the otherwise reasonable points you have to make. You could have said with as much evidence to connect either that odd how Argentina winning World Cups ceased when he was removed. There seems a chronic and willful inability to accept that the guy was killed for no reason other than the cops and loyalists wanted him dead.
DeleteI accept that the cops and Loyalists wanted him dead and colluded to make it happen. But why did they want him dead? And why did the shooter say he wouldn't have been touched if it wasn't for that one particular cop? That nameless special branch inspector should be brought before the courts, unless he himself was taken out two months later and his colleagues incinerated all incriminating evidence gathered by an English cop sent over to investigate, thus creating a wall of silence with no evidence. An investigation won't turn up anything now.
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