The public inquiry into the 1999 murder of a Belfast human rights lawyer is now preparing its report. It's findings could be explosive, says Beatrix Campbell The public inquiry into the assassination a decade ago of the human rights lawyer Rosemary Nelson was about to open its doors in a blank Belfast office block to witnesses last year when a new and eccentric story began to circulate. It abandoned the theory accepted by virtually everyone close to the case - that Nelson's killers were probably a Belfast bomb-maker and veteran mid-Ulster loyalists, including people who had been British agents and a serving member of the British army. Instead, the inquiry, chaired by Sir Michael Morland, was encouraged to believe that one of Nelson's own clients, a former IRA prisoner called Colin Duffy, had in fact been responsible. People... [read full story]
