It’s emerged that the Minister of Justice has rejected calls for a new judge-led inquiry into the murder of a former senior Sinn Féin official and MI5 agent in county Donegal 18 years ago.
Denis Donaldson and was shot and killed in Glenties in April 2006.
The former IRA prisoner fled to a remote cottage by the village owned by his family after being exposed as an MI5 and Police agents four months earlier; no one has been charged.
His family allege PSNI officers were involved in a criminal conspiracy to expose him as an informer and create the circumstances for him to be killed.
It’s reported that well-known figures wrote to the minister in April 2021 asking her to establish a judge-led commission of inquiry.
However, it’s believed in a letter received by lawyers acting for the family earlier this week, Minister McEntee rejected the request, more than three years after it was made.
