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| Pat Finucane, 1949-1989 |
David Cameron today
apologised to Geraldine Finucane and her family for the role the British state played in the murder of her husband.
Pat Finucane was a Human Rights lawyer, and had successfully prosecuted several trials in defending Nationalists against the State. In a difficult time, human rights were being breached regularly; internment without trial had been regularly deployed in the North, and Catholics were systematically discriminated against. The State was effectively a protestant, loyalist, unionist machine, designed to suppress the growing minority. In those circumstances, if the State turned its beady eye on you, the avenues for protection were limited.
