Pat Finucane's death was one of the most controversial killings during the Troubles.
during the Troubles - the decades of conflict in Northern Ireland that claimed the lives of more than 3,000 people.
The family were eating a Sunday meal at their kitchen table when loyalist paramilitaries used a sledgehammer to break into their house.One of Mr Finucane's sons, Michael, later wrote that the image of the attack had been seared into his mind. The year before he died he had defended former IRA hunger striker Pat McGeown, who had been charged with helping to organise the murder of two Army corporals who drove into an IRA funeral cortege in west Belfast.
In June 1999 a former UDA quartermaster and ex-Royal Ulster Constabulary Special Branch agent, William Stobie, was charged with murdering Mr Finucane.Just over two years later, the case against him collapsed due to the refusal of a key witness to give evidence.In May 2003 the loyalist Ken Barrett was arrested and charged with the murder of Mr Finucane.
It found RUC officers proposed Mr Finucane be killed, said they passed information to his killers, failed to stop the attack and then obstructed the murder investigation. The Finucane family have campaigned for a full public inquiry into the murder for many years and have repeatedly insisted that they will not accept anything less.
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