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21/09/2006
MI5 to be represented in Nelson probe
MI5 is to have full legal representation during the public inquiry into the murder of Northern Ireland solicitor Rosemary Nelson, it has today been reported.
The Security Service argued that they would have assumed the main responsibility for national security intelligence work in Northern Ireland by the time the inquiry commences its full hearings in January 2007, and added that they should be represented.
The government decided to launch an inquiry into Ms Nelson's murder after recommendations made by retired Canadian judge Peter Cory.
Rosemary Nelson, 40, died in March 1999, after a booby trap bomb exploded underneath her car outside her home in Lurgan, County Armagh.
The Red Hand Commanders, are believed to have carried out the murder.
The inquiry, which is to be chaired by Sir Michael Morland, will investigate allegations about state collusion in the murder.
Since her death, there have been constant allegations of security force collusion in the killing due to Ms Nelson's role as the legal representative for the nationalist Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition and other high profile cases.
The inquiry will investigate claims that police ignored loyalist death threats against her.
Despite extensive police investigations into the killing no one has ever been charged.
(EF/KMcA)
The Security Service argued that they would have assumed the main responsibility for national security intelligence work in Northern Ireland by the time the inquiry commences its full hearings in January 2007, and added that they should be represented.
The government decided to launch an inquiry into Ms Nelson's murder after recommendations made by retired Canadian judge Peter Cory.
Rosemary Nelson, 40, died in March 1999, after a booby trap bomb exploded underneath her car outside her home in Lurgan, County Armagh.
The Red Hand Commanders, are believed to have carried out the murder.
The inquiry, which is to be chaired by Sir Michael Morland, will investigate allegations about state collusion in the murder.
Since her death, there have been constant allegations of security force collusion in the killing due to Ms Nelson's role as the legal representative for the nationalist Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition and other high profile cases.
The inquiry will investigate claims that police ignored loyalist death threats against her.
Despite extensive police investigations into the killing no one has ever been charged.
(EF/KMcA)
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