A decision to force the UK Government to hold a public inquiry into a Troubles killing that has been linked to state agents should be overturned, lawyers for the Northern Ireland Office have told the Supreme Court.
Sean Brown, 61, the chairman of Bellaghy Wolfe Tones Gaelic Athletic Club in Co Londonderry, was ambushed, kidnapped and murdered by loyalist paramilitaries as he locked the gates of the club in May 1997.