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Claudia Savage

Finucane inquiry to assess if state forces ‘used UDA as proxy’ to murder lawyer

The inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane is to consider the ‘disturbing explanation’ that security forces used ‘the UDA as a proxy to murder a lawyer who had incurred the enmity of the state’ (Liam McBurney/PA) - (PA Wire)

The inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane is to consider the “disturbing explanation” that security forces used “the UDA as a proxy to murder a lawyer who had incurred the enmity of the state”.

The long-awaited inquiry also heard there were nearly 300 instances of members of security forces assisting loyalist paramilitaries in the two years before Mr Finucane’s death.

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