Rosemary Nelson was a Northern Irish solicitor from Lurgan, County Armagh.
12 Facts About Rosemary Nelson
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Rosemary Nelson obtained her law degree at Queen's University Belfast School of Law.
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Rosemary Nelson worked with other solicitors for a number of years before opening her own practice in Lurgan in 1989.
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Rosemary Nelson represented clients in a number of high-profile cases, including Michael Caraher, one of the South Armagh Snipers, as well as a republican paramilitary accused of killing two RUC officers.
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Rosemary Nelson represented the Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition in nearby Portadown in the long-running Drumcree conflict against the Orange Order and RUC.
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Rosemary Nelson claimed she had received death threats from members of the RUC as a result of her legal work.
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The later Rosemary Nelson Inquiry concluded that her account of this incident was honest and truthful.
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Rosemary Nelson made recommendations to the British government concerning threats from police against solicitors, which were not acted upon.
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Later that year, Rosemary Nelson testified before a committee of the United States Congress investigating human rights in Northern Ireland, confirming that death threats had been made against her and her three children.
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On 15 March 1999, Rosemary Nelson was killed by a sophisticated bomb placed under her car outside her home in Lurgan.
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Furthermore, the inquiry found that Rosemary Nelson had been publicly threatened and assaulted by RUC officers in 1997, and that those officers had made threatening remarks about her to her clients, which became publicly known.
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Rosemary Nelson was survived by her husband and their three children.