The report of Sir Desmond de Silva contains important new information, but it is not the whole truth about Pat Finucane’s murder in 1989. That still requires the exhaustive, independent investigation of a fully equipped public inquiry.
Whilst Cameron certainly admitted to ‘shocking’ official ‘collusion’ by the British State in a terrible killing, it is still far from clear how far up the line of establishment responsibility this collusion went. De Silva notes that the Force Research Unit (FRU) handlers of Brian Nelson, the intelligence officer of the loyalist UDA, gave him information that was later used for targeted killings.
