Rosemary Nelson death inquiry – who is on the panel?
The Rosemary Nelson Inquiry is led by a three-member panel chaired by a former senior judge.
The panel includes:
Chairman Sir Michael Morland, a retired judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
The inquiry said he served as a judge of the High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division, between 1989 and 2004, having served as a Recorder since 1972.
In 1980 he chaired the inquiry into the death of four-year old Paul Brown set up by the Department of Health and Social Security.
He has had direct experience of Northern Ireland during his career and was a member of the 1974 Gardiner Commission on internment and acted for the Crown in 1973 in internment proceedings.
Dame Valerie Strachan is former chairman of the Board of Customs and Excise.
She was deputy chair of the Community Fund and vice chair of the Big Lottery Fund.
Among other senior posts, she was the Head of HM Treasury/Cabinet Office Joint Management Unit from 1985 to 1987.
Sir Anthony Burden is former Chief Constable of South Wales Police.
He had previously served as the Chief Constable of Gwent Constabulary and Assistant then Deputy Chief Constable of West Mercia Constabulary.
