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Patrick Finucane (1949 – 12 February 1989)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmhansrd/vo990505/debtext/90505-14.htm#90505-14_head0 )〕 was a Northern Irish human rights lawyer killed〔"(Pat Finucane Case )". M&F. Retrieved 27 November 2014.〕 by loyalist paramilitaries acting in collusion with the British government intelligence service MI5.〔"(Cory Collusion Inquiry Report )". 1 April 2004. Retrieved 27 November 2014.〕 In 2011 British Prime Minister David Cameron met with Pat Finucane's family and admitted the collusion, although no member of the British security services has yet been prosecuted.〔"(The Murder of Pat Finucane )". Pat Finucane Inquiry Campaign. Retrieved 27 November 2014.〕 Finucane's killing was one of the most controversial during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.〔"(Timeline of Finucane murder probe )". BBC, 23 September 2004. Retrieved 9 August 2008.〕 Finucane came to prominence due to successfully challenging the British government in several important human rights cases during the 1980s. He was shot fourteen times as he sat eating a meal at his Belfast home with his three children and his wife, who was also wounded during the attack.〔"(Pat Finucane: A controversial killing )". BBC, 13 September 2004. Retrieved 9 August 2008.〕 In September 2004, an Ulster Defence Association member, and at the time of the murder a paid informant for the Royal Ulster Constabulary, Ken Barrett, pleaded guilty to his murder.〔''The Guardian, 13 September 2004 ("Loyalist informer admits Finucane murder" )〕 After much international pressure, the British government eventually announced that an inquiry would be held. This was one result of an agreement made between the British and Irish governments at Weston Park in 2001. The British government said it would comply with the terms agreed by the two governments at Weston Park. They agreed to appoint an international judge that would review Finucane's case and if evidence of collusion was found, a public inquiry would be recommended.〔"(Statement of Geraldine Finucane )". US Congressional Hearing on Human Rights in Northern Ireland, 16 March 2005. Retrieved 27 November 2014.〕 The British government reneged on this promise to Finucane's family after the international judge found evidence of collusion.〔"(Letter from Judge Cory on the Inquiries Bill and the case of Pat Finucane )". Pat Finucane Inquiry Campaign, 15 March 2005. Retrieved 27 November 2014.〕 ''The Daily Telegraph'' quoted Prime Minister David Cameron saying "(are ) people in buildings all around here who won’t let it happen".〔http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/northernireland/9747132/Finucane-Who-knew-of-this-deniable-murder.html〕 Two public investigations concluded that elements of the British security forces colluded in Finucane's murder and there have been high-profile calls for a public inquiry. However, in October 2011, it was announced that a planned public inquiry would be replaced by a less wide-ranging review. This review, led by Desmond Lorenz de Silva, released a report in December 2012 acknowledging that the case entailed "a wilful and abject failure by successive Governments". Finucane's family called the De Silva report a "sham". ==Background== Born into a Catholic family in 1949, Finucane was the eldest child, with six brothers and one sister. He graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 1973. One of his brothers, John, a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member, was killed in a car crash in the Falls Road, Belfast, in 1972. Another brother, Dermot, successfully contested attempts to extradite him to Northern Ireland from the Republic of Ireland for his part in the killing of a prison officer; he was one of 38 IRA prisoners who escaped from HMP Maze in 1983. A third brother Seamus was the fiancé of Mairead Farrell, one of the IRA trio shot dead by the Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar in March 1988.〔(Collusion 'at heart' of Finucane killing ) By Rosie Cowan and Nick Hopkins, Guardian Unlimited, 14 June 2002〕 Seamus was the leader of an IRA unit in west Belfast before his arrest in 1976 with Bobby Sands and seven other IRA men, during an attempt to destroy Balmoral's furniture store in south Belfast. He was sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment.〔(Orde pressured over Finucane IRA claims ) By Alan Murray, Belfast Telegraph, 18 April 2004〕 Finucane's wife, Geraldine, whom he met at Trinity College, is the daughter of middle-class Protestants;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reconciling a dark past )〕 together they had three children. His uncle Brendan 'Paddy' Finucane was an ace fighter pilot praised by Churchill for his heroism. Pat Finucane's best-known client was the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands. He also represented other IRA and Irish National Liberation Army hunger strikers who died during the 1981 Maze prison protest, Brian Gillen, and the widow of Gervaise McKerr, one of three men shot dead by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in a shoot-to-kill incident in 1982. In 1988, he represented Pat McGeown, who was charged in connection with the Corporals killings, and was photographed with McGeown outside Crumlin Road Courthouse. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pat Finucane」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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