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16/04/2008
Top 'Spook' For Nelson Inquiry
The head of MI5 in Northern Ireland is to give evidence to a public inquiry into the murder of Lurgan solicitor Rosemary Nelson.
The mother-of-three, 40, died after a booby-trap bomb left by loyalists exploded under her car in March 1999.
Retired judge Sir Michael Morland is chairing a three-strong panel examining alleged security force collusion.
The solicitor's brother, Eunan Magee, said the family would adopt a "wait and see attitude" to the hearings.
He said the family would wait before making any judgement on whether the security forces were cooperating fully with the inquiry.
The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5),[1] (or as 'Spooks') is the United Kingdom's counter-intelligence and security agency.
The service has had a national headquarters at Thames House on Millbank in London since 1995, drawing together personnel from a number of locations into a single HQ facility.
Thames House is shared with the newly opened Northern Ireland Office and is also home to the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, a subordinate organisation to the Security Service.
The inquiry must determine whether the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), Northern Ireland Office (NIO), Army or other state agency facilitated the murder, or blocked attempts to investigate it.
The collusion allegations arose because of Mrs Nelson's role as the legal representative in a number of high profile cases, including that of the nationalist Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition in Portadown.
Last September, a Police Ombudsman report found that threats made against her months before she was murdered were not properly investigated by the RUC.
(BMcC/JM)
The mother-of-three, 40, died after a booby-trap bomb left by loyalists exploded under her car in March 1999.
Retired judge Sir Michael Morland is chairing a three-strong panel examining alleged security force collusion.
The solicitor's brother, Eunan Magee, said the family would adopt a "wait and see attitude" to the hearings.
He said the family would wait before making any judgement on whether the security forces were cooperating fully with the inquiry.
The Security Service, commonly known as MI5 (Military Intelligence, Section 5),[1] (or as 'Spooks') is the United Kingdom's counter-intelligence and security agency.
The service has had a national headquarters at Thames House on Millbank in London since 1995, drawing together personnel from a number of locations into a single HQ facility.
Thames House is shared with the newly opened Northern Ireland Office and is also home to the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, a subordinate organisation to the Security Service.
The inquiry must determine whether the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), Northern Ireland Office (NIO), Army or other state agency facilitated the murder, or blocked attempts to investigate it.
The collusion allegations arose because of Mrs Nelson's role as the legal representative in a number of high profile cases, including that of the nationalist Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition in Portadown.
Last September, a Police Ombudsman report found that threats made against her months before she was murdered were not properly investigated by the RUC.
(BMcC/JM)
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