Alex Kane is a former Communications Director of the Ulster Unionist Party.
He claims, no doubt honestly, that he does not begrudge the Finucane family
the consideration being given them by the British Government over the murder
of solicitor Patrick Finucane in 1989.
 
He reports that Sir Edward de Silva confirmed that agents of the British State were involved in such murders but found no overarching conspiracy.
 
Sir Edward’s failure to find an overarching conspiracy does not prove that one did not
exist. 
 
I believe Mr. Kane is well-meaning but naive.
 
The late unlamented Sir Frank Kitson, the  Eminence Grise of Elizabeth II’s Irish War
was clear about the subordination of judiciary and media to the crushing of civil and all
other rights in Ireland.
 
I recently republished (7 Sept 2024) here my review, published in 1985 of a National Council of Civil Rights Pamphlet  by Lord Gifford, QC, “DEATH ON THE STREETS OF DERRY” where Lord Gifford exposed the then Mr Justice Hutton as a scoundrel.
Hutton was doing what was demanded of him by General Sir Frank Kitson.
 
Mr Hutton became Lord Chief Justice Hutton and  was happy to presume that
Dr David Kelly cut his own wrists although there was no autopsy, no Inquest
and no coroner’s verdict. Even THE TIMES recoiled at the love affair between
Tony Blair and Hutton. Hutton mightily pleased Mandelson and Alasdair Campbell,
 who like Blair had most to gain from his presumption.
 
The TIMES and the BRITISH MEDIA generally behave as British Governments
dictate.
 
Like slaves.