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Northern Ireland: ‘We fight on’ say Finucane family

THE widow of murdered Belfast lawyer Pat Finucane vowed to fight on yesterday after judges rejected an inquiry into alleged police collusion.

Geraldine Finucane, who witnessed the shooting, had appealed against a 2015 judicial ruling that the decision taken by British then prime minister David Cameron in 2011 was lawful.

But Court of Appeal judges in Belfast rejected her challenge.

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