British PM: State collusion in Belfast murder 'shocking'

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Cathal Mcnaughton / ReutersA woman walks past a mural to murdered lawyer Pat Finucane on the Fall's Road in West Belfast on Wednesday.By NBC News staff and wire reportsLONDON -- British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday there had been "shocking" levels of state collusion in the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989.

Follow @NBCNewsWorld  Cameron was quoting from a new report into the killing of Finucane by British lawyer Sir Desmond de Silva, saying that while it did not find that there had been an "over-arching state conspiracy" over the murder, it was still "extremely difficult reading."

Finucane, a Catholic whose clients included members of the anti-British Irish Republican Army (IRA) guerrilla group, was shot dead by pro-British paramilitaries in front of his wife and their three children as they sat down to dinner.

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