A man who lost his brother in the Kingsmill massacre has the government's approach to revisiting Troubles crimes "should be even-handed".

Colin Worton, 65, was reacting to a renewed push from the relatives of murdered solicitor Pat Finucane to have a public inquiry into his killing opened.

Such an inquiry was announced by the government in September 2024, but son John Finucane, a Sinn Fein MP, told the BBC this week it still "doesn't exist legally in any meaningful way", while his widow Geraldine voiced "frustration" at the progress.

There have already been three different reports which looked in detail at the events surrounding Pat Finucane’s death, carried out by senior figures in the justice system (the Stevens III report of 2003, the Cory report of 2004, and the de Silva report of 2012), and one UDA man has been convicted in relation to it.

placeholder image — Colin Worton, whose brother Kenneth was killed in the Kingsmill massacre, says there is 'no appetite' among the authorities to revisit the crime

Mr Worton was aged 15 when his brother Kenneth and nine other Protestants were lined up and shot dead by the IRA in 1976. No-one has been convicted in relation to it.

He said "there doesn't seem to be a fraction" of the same resources put into investigating murders of people "on the unionist side", adding: "I think they [the Finucane family] should be entitled - but they're not the only ones that should be entitled to anything…

"The Finucane family have got more disclosure than the Kingsmill families ever will."

He said "I don't think there's any appetite" to look into the Kingsmill massacre, and he questioned whether the authorities even "want to solve it", adding: "I think they just want us all to go away."

Asked if he ever expects answers on Kingsmill, he said: "Not this side of the grave."

Meanwhile, "all we hear tell of is the Finucane family, the Finucane family".