Major Sir Lancelot Ernest Curran (8 March 1899 – 20 October 1984[1]) was a Northern Ireland High Court judge and parliamentarian.
[2][3] Curran was Attorney General for Northern Ireland (6 June 1947 – 4 November 1949), the youngest in the history of that parliament.
Her body was found in the driveway of the Curran home, Glen House, Whiteabbey, County Antrim.
[6] A 20 year old RAF technician, Iain Hay Gordon, who had met Patricia at the Presbyterian church they both attended, was convicted of her murder.
Another McNamee novel, Blue Is The Night (published in 2014), deals with Curran's involvement in a murder trial in the Northern Ireland of the late 1940s.