Announcement of a public inquiry could expose collusion by those at highest levels of UK government

It was news to her 44-year-old son. Geraldine Finucane recalled that John had struggled as an eight-year-old with her decision for them to stay put in the family home after the murder of his father in the kitchen.

“You did at the start,” she said to him. “I changed everything in the kitchen so it made it easier to go into that particular room.” “There’s a haze around that,” said John quietly from a comfy chair on the other side of his mother’s lounge overlooking the back garden.