The trial of a loyalist paramilitary informer accused of murdering Belfast solicitor Mr Pat Finucane will not resume until next week.
Former Ulster Defence Association quartermaster Mr William Stobie denies being involved with the 1989 killing. Proceedings at Belfast Crown Court have now been delayed until Monday after the judge, Lord Chief Justice Sir Robert Carswell, was taken ill.
Lawyers for Mr Finucane's family have launched a legal challenge against Metropolitan Police Commissioner John Stevens, who is heading the inquiry into Mr Finucane's murder, over claims he failed to provide documentary material relating to the killing.
But Scotland Yard insisted it made repeated efforts to give his widow Geraldine Finucane updates on the case.
Mr Finucane was murdered at his north Belfast home in front of his family. Mr Stobie, an ex-RUC informer, has been charged with the murder through aiding and abetting, counselling and procuring. He has also been charged with the murder of 19-year-old Co Fermanagh man Mr Adam Lambert in 1987.
But the 51-year-old north Belfast man insists he told his RUC Special Branch handlers about a loyalist assassination plan in advance of Mr Finucane's murder.
The case is central to allegations that the RUC colluded with loyalists in the murder of Catholics.
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