A man arrested in Sussex for the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane has been moved to a different jail for his safety.

Ken Barrett, due to stand trial in September for the shooting of Mr Finucane in his Belfast home in February 1989, was transferred from an Irish jail to a prison in England on Thursday when a report on the solicitor's killing was released by the Government.

Barrett, 40, was arrested by detectives from Scotland Yard chief Sir John Stevens' team examining alleged security force collusion with paramilitary killers in Northern Ireland.

Their inquiry centres on the assassination of Mr Finucane in February 1989, one of the most controversial murders in the history of the 30-year conflict.

The Government was yesterday put under more pressure to hold a public inquiry soon into the solicitor's death.

A US State Department official said Washington was concerned about plans to delay an inquiry into Finucane's murder until all criminal prosecutions had been completed.

Mr Finucane's family, nationalist politicians and human rights campaigners believe British Army intelligence and members of the RUC colluded in his murder.

Mr Barrett, who was arrested at an address in Sussex last May, has denied killing the solicitor and had been behind bars in Maghaberry jail in Co Antrim.