The murder of a Catholic councillor 30 years ago is to come under the spotlight in the High Court in Belfast.
Mr Patsy Kelly was 33 when he was shot on July 24th, 1974 as he drove home from his pub in Trillick, Co Tyrone. His body - tied to a 56 lb. weight - was found a month later by fishermen in Lough Eyes, 15 miles away.
No one was charged with Mr Kelly's murder. There were repeated allegations he was murdered in revenge for the IRA murder of a local UDR man, Mr Robert Jameson.
The PSNI has agreed to carry out a fresh investigation into the killing but Mr Kelly's widow wants an independent outside police force to have charge of it.
However, Assistant Chief Constable Sam Kincaid has told Mrs Kelly there is no basis for finding that the PSNI "would be insufficiently independent." Mr Kincaid said the PSNI officers involved had not served in the murder area and had not been in the force when Mr Kelly was murdered.
Mrs Kelly, a mother of five, has been granted leave to seek a judicial review of the PSNI's decision.
In court papers her lawyers said the PSNI's decision was "unlawful, irrational and improper" and they applied for an order compelling the force to "invite an independent external police force to investigate the murder." The court papers also alleged that the PSNI had failed to give proper weight to the "shortcomings and flawed nature" of the original RUC investigation.