Alison Morris

The UFF, the Ulster Freedom Fighters, they admitted responsibility the day after the murder.

In a statement claiming the killing, they said they killed Pat Finucane, the IRA officer.

Now, his family have always denied that allegation.

And that is part of the story, of course.

In May 2003, loyalist Ken Barrett was arrested and charged with the murder of Pat Finucane.

He drove the getaway car.

He later confessed and was sentenced to 22 years of imprisonment in September 2004.

He was freed two years later under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.

Of course, there were many other people aside from this pair involved.

Just before I move on from that, Pat Finucane, he would have known

that he was disliked.

He would have known there was a degree of risk.

But would he have been warned?

Because at the end of the day, this is a man sitting eating his Sunday dinner in quite a middle class area of North Belfast, could we say?

Over 700 people were murdered in North Belfast over the course of the Troubles.

I suppose the reason why the Pat Finucane case attracts so much discourse, and of course his family continued to fight for justice for him, but this suspicion of collusion, what was the extent of this collusion?

Do we know?

Is that what the inquiry's for?

To what extent is this inquiry into things of which we already know?

And the other question I suppose I'll ask it now because I have it further down is,