Mirror
The RUC's former deputy head of CID reveals in a new book how he believes he could have solved the murder of solicitor Pat Finucane. In Duplicity And Deception launched yesterday, now retired police officer Alan Simpson said in 2002 that he had not been told an RUC Special Branch informer was involved in the murder. And he explained how he was discouraged from digging too deeply while investigating the murder of Mr Finucane.
The lawyer was shot dead in front of his wife and three children at his North Belfast home on February 12, 1989.
Mr Simpson recalled how in the days after the murder he was visited by Wilfred Monahan, the then-RUC assistant chief constable and the pair watched a video of the crime scene together. The author claims the former police chief, who has since died, said of the most sensitive murder cases in the Troubles' bloody history: "If I were you I wouldn't get too deeply involved in this one."
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