Rosemary Nelson

Rosemary Nelson
Born
Rosemary Magee

(1958-09-04)4 September 1958
Lurgan, Northern Ireland
Died15 March 1999(1999-03-15) (aged 40)
Lurgan, Northern Ireland
OccupationSolicitor
Known forKilled by Ulster loyalists in 1999

Rosemary Nelson (née Magee; 4 September 1958 – 15 March 1999) was a Northern Irish solicitor from Lurgan, County Armagh. She was killed in a car bomb planted by an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group, the Red Hand Defenders – a covername used on this occasion by the Loyalist Volunteer Force, in 1999. Nelson was posthumously awarded the Train Foundation's Civil Courage Prize, which recognises "extraordinary heroes of conscience".

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