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Cillian Sherlock

RARE PHOTOS: Official says nio should have offered rosemary nelson protection in hindsight | Vintage Vibes

Rosemary Nelson was killed in a car bombing (MAtthew Fearn/PA) - (PA Archive)

The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) should have done more to offer protection to murdered solicitor Rosemary Nelson, a top official accepted “in hindsight”, according to newly released documents.

Mrs Nelson was killed by a loyalist car bomb outside her home in Lurgan, Co Armagh in March 1999.

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