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Finucane: police blamed
Secret tape of terrorist claims RUC link in solicitor's death
Rosie Cowan and Nick Hopkins
Wednesday June 19, 2002
The Guardian
The Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, whose murder remains one of the most
contentious of the Troubles, would still be alive today if RUC officers had not
wanted him killed, according to a member of the loyalist paramilitary gang which
allegedly shot him.
The claim is made by a known terrorist, Ken Barrett, in a BBC Panorama
documentary to be screened tonight. Mr Barrett was secretly filmed by the
programme makers.
His allegations will add further weight to the growing evidence that the security
forces colluded with paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, as revealed by the Guardian
last week.
During the programme, Barrett claims that loyalists would not have thought of
targeting Finucane, who was shot 13 years ago, because solicitors were off limits.
But he explains how another leading loyalist introduced him to a police officer who
claimed that Mr Finucane was a senior IRA man and would have to be got rid of.
A known loyalist terrorist has said that Pat Finucane, whose murder remains one of
the most contentious of the Troubles, was killed at the request of the RUC.
The claim is made by Ken Barrett, a member of the gang who allegedly shot
Finucane 13 years ago, in a BBC Panorama documentary to be screened tonight.
Mr Barrett said: "The peelers wanted him whacked. We whacked him and that's the
end of the story as far as I'm concerned."
His allegations will add to evidence that the security forces colluded with
paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, as revealed by the Guardian last week.
Barrett reported the officer as saying: "He's [Finucane] a thorn in everyone's side,
he'll have to go. You [Barrett] want Provies [Provisional IRA] buried. You do the
business for us. If in the near future, we can help you at any stage, that'll be done."
Barrett also said: "The peelers wanted him whacked. We whacked him and that's
the end of the story as far as I'm concerned. Finucane would be alive today if the
peelers hadn't interfered."
The documentary follows last week's disclosures in the Guardian that a top-level
police investigation has uncovered collusion between RUC special branch, army
undercover intelligence and loyalist terrorists.
A report by Metropolitan police commissioner Sir John Stevens, to be completed in
the next few weeks, will say that this collusion and lack of proper regulation of
intelligence work allowed loyalists to murder innocent Catholics with near impunity,
and could result in a number of police and army officers facing charges.
But Sir John, who will recommend a series of stringent controls to rein in security
force intelligence operations, will stop short of suggesting that government ministers
or the police or army hierarchy sanctioned the killings.
The focus of the Stevens report is the murder of Mr Finucane, who was shot dead in
front of his family at his north Belfast home in February 1989.
No one has stood trial for his murder and the Finucane family have campaigned for
a public inquiry, convinced that there is a web of intrigue leading to the heart of the
British establishment.
A former RUC CID detective, Johnston "Jonty" Brown, revealed last year that
Barrett had admitted to him in 1991 that he was one of two gunmen who shot Mr
Finucane, but special branch lost the covert audio recording.
Barrett fled from Belfast to England last December and is being questioned by the
Stevens team, under police protection. Barrett tells Panorama that the idea for
killing Mr Finucane came from the police, but that it was an agent working for an
undercover army squad, the force research unit (FRU), that supplied the Ulster
Defence Association (UDA) with tactical information that helped them murder him.
According to Barrett, the agent Brian Nelson, who was the UDA's intelligence
officer, supplied him with Mr Finucane's photograph six days before the murder and
showed him where the solicitor lived.
The former head of the FRU, Brigadier Gordon Kerr, has claimed that Nelson
thought the intended victim was one of Finucane's clients, the IRA man Pat
McGeown.
guardian.co.uk/nireland
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