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http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/ruc-bugged-rosemary-nelsonrsquos-home-for-three-years-13987835.html
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
RUC bugged Rosemary Nelsons home for three years
By Chris Thornton
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
The security forces bugged a house belonging to
solicitor Rosemary Nelson and wanted to tap her
office phone, the inquiry into her murder has learned.
The inquiry revealed RUC Special Branch were
recording the minutiae of her life for almost
three years before Mrs Nelson was murdered by a car bomb.
The inquiry, which resumed hearings this month,
is expected to explore whether RUC Special Branch
respected the legally privileged talks she had with her client.
The then Secretary of State Mo Mowlam approved
the operation to bug the home owned by Mrs Nelson
and occupied by suspected IRA leader Colin
Duffy but there is no paper trail to show what
happened to a second application to eavesdrop on her office.
The inquiry's leading lawyer says the lack of a
paper trail suggests the wiretap did not take
place. However, another intelligence report gives
details of a conversation Mrs Nelson had with
Martin McGuinness in her office, several months
before the RUC application to tap her phone.
The Committee on the Administration of Justice
Mrs Nelson served on its executive committee
indicated it was concerned about the revelations.
We are opposed to any breach of lawyer-client
confidentiality arrangements, said CAJ director Mike Ritchie.
Special Branch was interested in Mrs Nelson
because she represented republican suspects and
the Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition in the Drumcree dispute.
The inquiry is beginning to explore intelligence
questions around Mrs Nelson's murder in March
1999, and has noted the absence of a police file
on her in spite of a number of intelligence
reports devoted to her movements and associations.
Rory Phillips QC, lead counsel for the inquiry,
said that from April 1996 Special Branch began
collecting intelligence specifically relating to Mrs Nelson.
The volume and the detail of the reporting gives
rise to a series of questions. Why was Special
Branch recording information of this kind
relating to Rosemary Nelson's private life,
including details of her family, friends, people
who worked in her solicitor's office?
Given this intense focus, Mr Phillips said, the
question arose as to whether there was in fact a
file on Rosemary Nelson in existence at the time of her murder?
The intelligence materials suggest police were
collecting intelligence on Mrs Nelson but not apparently analysing it.
Mr Phillips said there are no reports, notes,
memoranda or documents produced by E3 (Special
Branch's republican desk) containing analysis of
the intelligence on Rosemary Nelson.
The inquiry has found two bugging applications relating to Mrs Nelson.
One concerned Operation Indus, the plan to bug
the house in Deeny Drive, Lurgan, then occupied
by Mr Duffy and owned by Mrs Nelson. An earlier
application to tap her office phone was also made
by an RUC Special Branch sergeant in Lurgan.
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