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 Solicitor Rosemary Nelson who was murdered by Loyalists in Lurgan, County Armagh in 1999. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell / Rex Features/CRO 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... [read full story]
