The RUC have confirmed that detectives investigating the murder of Belfast solicitor, Pat Finucane, ten years ago have arrested a man. He was detained for questioning in west Belfast on Tuesday and is being held under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. The outlawed Ulster Freedom Fighters said they killed the solicitor who was shot dead at his home in February 1989.
There were renewed called for an independent inquiry and investigation into the murder amid fresh allegations of security force collusion, after the killing of Lurgan solicitor Rosemary Nelson in a loyalist bomb attack earlier this year. Metropolitan Police deputy commissioner John Stevens was called in by RUC Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan and began an inquiry into the Finucane killing in April.
The arrest, confirmed by Scotland Yard, is the first since John Stevens began his work. Mr Stevens has carried out two previous investigations into allegations of security force collusion with loyalists in Northern Ireland.
