Finucane, who had acted for Irish Republican Army suspects, was shot dead in his Belfast home by the Ulster Defense Association, a banned Protestant militia. His death is one of the highest profile ...
His death is one of the highest profile killings of Northern Ireland’s “Troubles,” three decades of violence in which more than 3,500 people died. A series of investigations concluded there ...
He was a lawyer whose 1989 slaying raised questions of collusion between U.K. security forces and Loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland ... Protestant militia. A series of investigations ...