Rosemary Nelson

Rosemary Nelson was an Irish solicitor from Lurgan, County Armagh. She represented clients from the Irish nationalist community in several high-profile cases, including the Garvaghy Road Residents Coalition, the family of Robert Hamill, and Provisional IRA member Colin Duffy. She was killed by a bomb planted under her car by an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group. The assassination was claimed by the Red Hand Defenders, a covername for members of the Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF). Nelson was pos