The family of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane today vowed to continue theirfight for a full inquiry into his murder, even if a top judge probing the killing insists it is not necessary.
The lawyer's widow met the Canadian judge in Belfast today on the 14thanniversary of the loyalist paramilitary assassination.
Geraldine Finucane said Judge Peter Cory told her he had completed his report on the killing of her husband and he was still on course to hand it over to theBritish and Irish Governments in October.
'I know that the family will continue for an inquiry until we get one, whether the judge recommends one or not' she said. 'We will persevere until we get one. We will continue on no matter how long it takes.'
Mr Finucane's former colleague Peter Madden and Jane Winter, of the London-based British Irish Rights Watch, were part of the delegation whichaccompanied his widow to today's meeting.
Judge Cory was appointed by the British and Irish Governments to investigate killings involving allegations of collusion by the security forces withparamilitaries on both sides of the Irish border.
He will write a report advising the governments whether a full independent inquiry should be carried out.
Mr Finucane was shot dead in front of his family at their north Belfast homeby the UDA but, even though police have a list of suspects, no-one has ever been convicted of the murder.
Ms Finucane described today's meeting as good and said the family expressed all their concerns and fears to Judge Cory.
She said it was difficult to gather the full extent of his progress at themoment. He was very loath to discuss details but he has written a report on the case and will submit further reports if necessary, if further informationcomes into his possession.
Ms Finucane added the family's mood had gone past frustration and had moved on to determination in the years since her husband's death.
'There are too many questions that need to be answered and too many issues that need to be fully investigated,' she said.
Ms Finucane said Judge Cory had assured her that she would be informed when he presented his report to the governments, and she said she would expect to see it.
The Finucane family will attend a memorial service tonight before travellingto Dublin tomorrow to meet the Taoiseach to press her demands for an international inquiry.
Ms Finucane said she was very disappointed that she had to have a secondmeeting with Mr Ahern about the death of her husband.
A delayed report by London's Metropolitan Police Commissioner John Stevens on the murder is not due out until later this year.
Judge Cory first met Ms Finucane in Dublin last year after he was appointed to investigate a series of controversial murders.
They also include the deaths of Lord Justice Maurice Gibson and his wife LadyCecily Gibson who were blown up by an IRA bomb in April 1987 and the murder of Catholic Robert Hamill, who was kicked to death by loyalists in Portadown, Co Armagh, in 1997.
He will also probe the death of Loyalist Volunteer Force leader Billy Wright, who was murdered by republicans in the Maze Prison in December 1997, andsolicitor Rosemary Nelson, who was killed by loyalists in March 1999.
The murders of two senior RUC officers, Chief Supt Harry Breen and Supt Bob Buchanan, who were allegedly set up for an IRA ambush by a renegade police officer in the south, will also be examined.
The appointment of Judge Cory fulfilled a commitment made by the two governments following the Weston Park talks in the summer of 2001.
