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Pat Finucane: Legacy body could have dealt with Troubles case

Sinn Féin MLA Emma Sheerin also questioned the panel about the government’s decision to reject a coroner’s request for a public inquiry into the murder of GAA official Sean Brown.

Mr Brown, 61, was shot dead near Randalstown in County Antrim in 1997 after being abducted by loyalists.

Sir Declan said “the involvement of the secretary of state would be the same” in a public inquiry as it would be in an investigation by the commission.

He added: “The secretary of state can give a ministerial direction as to what is to be disclosed and what isn’t.

“That’s the point about a public inquiry, it doesn’t do what it says on the tin. Sometimes what happens is people go and create expectations with families about things that are going to happen that can’t happen and it’s not fair to the families.”

Benn said he has “enormous sympathy” for the Brown family but that an inquiry is “not the best way to proceed”.


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