Pat Finucane's widow Geraldine welcomes the announcement of a public inquiry into her husband's murder. Speaking at a press conference in Belfast, Mrs Finucane says: "After 35 years of campaigning for such an inquiry, I believe this announcement represents a significant step forward for my family in our fight to uncover all of the circumstances behind Pat's murder”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Today, I welcome the announcement of the Secretary of State in the House of Commons that an independent
00:07statutory public inquiry will be established into the murder of my husband, Patrick Finucane.
00:15After 35 years of campaigning for such an inquiry, I believe this announcement represents
00:21a significant step forward for my family in our fight to uncover all of the circumstances
00:28behind Pat's murder.
00:30We did not believe that his murder was simply the work of gunmen who killed him.
00:35We had no confidence that police investigations would ever bring those truly responsible to
00:40justice.
00:42We were not satisfied with private, limited reviews from which we were excluded.
00:49We could not and did not accept the assurances of previous British governments that they
00:55were anxious to set the record straight because they were never prepared to do so in public.
01:02An independent statutory public inquiry is and was the only way to bring the whole truth
01:09behind the murder of Pat Finucane into the light of day.