Cameron criticised for reneging on inquiry

Prime Minister David Cameron has been accused by the family of murdered Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane of reneging on an agreement to order a public inquiry into his death.

Widow Geraldine Finucane branded Mr Cameron “dishonourable” after he established a review led by a lawyer into the killing, which involved state collusion with the loyalist killers.

A masked gang from the loyalist Ulster Defence Association shot the solicitor in front of his wife and three children as they ate dinner in their north Belfast home in 1989.

It later emerged that members of the security forces were linked to the murder.

Mr Cameron told the family of his decision at Downing Street on Tuesday.

Mrs Finucane said: “Not only were my family and I forced to listen to the Prime Minister of Britain renege on a promise made by the British Government, we had to hear him tell us, over and over, what it was that we really wanted.”