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| No police or soldiers will be charged in connection with the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, the Public Prosecution Service has said. | No police or soldiers will be charged in connection with the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane, the Public Prosecution Service has said. |
| Mr Finucane, 39, was shot dead at his home by loyalist paramilitaries, the Ulster Defence Association, in 1989. | Mr Finucane, 39, was shot dead at his home by loyalist paramilitaries, the Ulster Defence Association, in 1989. |
| The killing was one of the most controversial of the 30 years of the Troubles in NI due to allegations of security force collusion. | The killing was one of the most controversial of the 30 years of the Troubles in NI due to allegations of security force collusion. |
| The PPS said insufficient evidence was "critical" in its decision. | The PPS said insufficient evidence was "critical" in its decision. |
| Mr Finucane's widow, Geraldine said: "I have been made aware of the decision but have yet to read all the papers." | Mr Finucane's widow, Geraldine said: "I have been made aware of the decision but have yet to read all the papers." |
| The "Stevens Three" report published in 2003 stated that rogue elements within the police and Army in Northern Ireland helped loyalist paramilitaries to murder Catholics in the late 1980s. | |
| However, in a statement on Monday, the Public Prosecution Service said no further prosecution would be brought against any individual. | |
| It said some of the difficulties in bringing charges included absence of records and the death of potential witnesses. | |
| William Stobie was shot dead after the case against him collapsed | |
| Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey said: "This is an absolute scandal that no action is being taken. | |
| "People are being told that while the state was involved in the murders of their loved ones, no prosecution will be taken." | |
| The SDLP's Alban Maginness said the PPS decision was "outrageous" and "the mother of all cover-ups". | |
| He called on the incoming prime minister, Gordon Brown, to announce a fully independent inquiry into Mr Finucane's murder. | |
| In 2004, the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Paul Murphy, announced that Mr Finucane's death would be the subject of a inquiry. | |
| Meanwhile, the PPS also confirmed information about weapons handed over to police by William Stobie, who admitted supplying guns used in Mr Finucane's killing. | |
| Bookmaker's massacre | |
| It said weapons deactivated after Stobie, a former UDA quartermaster, gave them to his police handlers in 1989 were later used in loyalist killings. | |
| Investigators had examined the conduct of RUC officers and a civilian employee in relation to the possession and handling of five guns. | |
| The Stevens team uncovered evidence that two of the batch were either partially or fully deactivated before being handed back to Stobie. | |
| One of the guns, a Browning pistol, was later reactivated and used to kill Catholic man Aidan Wallace in west Belfast in 1991. | |
| Less than three months later, in south Belfast, the same weapon was used in the Sean Graham's bookmakers massacre, when UDA gunmen shot dead five people. | |
| Stobie was shot dead outside his home in 2001 just weeks after the court case against him collapsed. | |
| Only one man has been convicted of killing Mr Finucane. | |
| Ken Barratt, 44, was jailed for 22 years in 2004 but released from jail in May last year. He isunderstood to be living at a secret location in England. |