Why were RUC officers wearing boiler suits that morning?
Just before 12.45 a man told of how he had said to his wife “that I was not happy with so much security force presence on the estate (Kilwilke) and so I would collect my son from his work at lunchtime.” His son was working in the Ashgrove area near the Nelson home. On the way his car was overtaken by the ambulance. He had not heard the explosion. When the bomb exploded under the drivers seat of Rosemary Nelson’s car at approximately 12.40pm a number of people in the immediate area responded. Within minutes a nurse had stopped to offer help. Rosemary’s husband and sister were quickly on the scene. Another witness, one of the first on the scene, described the arrival of the first RUC vehicle, a Ford Mondeo. “…they had no siren on and they arrived on the scene very slowly. I had expected the police to arrive with sirens blaring and with some haste. They seemed to arrive almost nonchalantly. Two of the policemen got out and walked -without any haste- towards Rosemary’s car.” The third stay
