POLITICIANS from four parties have issued a joint letter calling for a public inquiry into the 1989 murder of human rights lawyer Pat Finucane.
The 39-year-old was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries in front of his wife and three children on February 12, 1989.
His family have campaigned ever since for a public inquiry to establish the full scale of security force collusion in the murder.
Sinn Féin, the SDLP, Alliance Party and the Greens have now issued a joint letter to Secretary of State Brandon Lewis calling for him to "act in the public interest".
The letter states: "Thirty years on, it remains a matter of the utmost public interest that questions remain unanswered about who ordered the killing, about who knew what, and when.
"Only a public inquiry can now assist the Finucane family to get the truth about the scope and extent of state collusion into Pat's killing.
"Holding a public inquiry provides the British government with an opportunity to restore wider confidence in the rule of law and the administration of justice."
It was signed by Sinn Féin's Michelle O'Neill, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, Alliance deputy leader Stephen Farry and Green Party leader Clare Bailey.
Mr Finucane's son John, the MP for north Belfast, has also written to every member of parliament asking for their support.
Mr Lewis said in October that he would make a decision on the inquiry by the end of this month.
