Pat Finucane has been remembered for his love of the law and role in “embryonic human rights” during some of the most chaotic years of the Northern Ireland Troubles on the first day of a public inquiry into his 1989 murder.
The prominent Belfast solicitor was killed in front of his wife and three children, aged 17, 12 and eight, in their home in the north of the city by loyalist paramilitary gunmen on February 12 1989.
