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28/01/2002
Policing Board meet with victims and families of Omagh bomb
The Northern Ireland Policing Board has met the relatives of the Omagh bomb victims in County Tyrone.
The 19 members of the Policing Board, which supervises the new Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), are to make their recommendations on the handling of the investigation into the atrocity within a fortnight.
The vice-chairman of the Policing Board, Denis Bradley, said before the meeting with the relatives of the Omagh bomb victims, it was their “biggest test yet”.
Mr Bradley also said they were expecting tough questions but he warned that they may not be able to provide all the answers.
The meeting on Monday January 28 follows the Police Ombudsman’s report which criticised the police handling of the murder inquiry. However in response, PSNI Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan firmly defended police investigations in a report published last week.
Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died in the bombing on 15 August 1998 which is largely considered to be the worst single atrocity in the history of the Troubles.
Meanwhile the second of two movies released to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday will be shown at a special showing for international media in Derry’s Tower Museum on Friday and on Channel 4 television on Monday January 28.
The relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday have already watched ‘Sunday’ directed by renowned director Jimmy McGovern which depicts the events of Bloody Sunday in 1972 in which British Paratroopers shot dead 13 unarmed people in the Bogside area of Derry at a special screening earlier in the month. (AMcE)
The 19 members of the Policing Board, which supervises the new Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), are to make their recommendations on the handling of the investigation into the atrocity within a fortnight.
The vice-chairman of the Policing Board, Denis Bradley, said before the meeting with the relatives of the Omagh bomb victims, it was their “biggest test yet”.
Mr Bradley also said they were expecting tough questions but he warned that they may not be able to provide all the answers.
The meeting on Monday January 28 follows the Police Ombudsman’s report which criticised the police handling of the murder inquiry. However in response, PSNI Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan firmly defended police investigations in a report published last week.
Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died in the bombing on 15 August 1998 which is largely considered to be the worst single atrocity in the history of the Troubles.
Meanwhile the second of two movies released to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday will be shown at a special showing for international media in Derry’s Tower Museum on Friday and on Channel 4 television on Monday January 28.
The relatives of those killed on Bloody Sunday have already watched ‘Sunday’ directed by renowned director Jimmy McGovern which depicts the events of Bloody Sunday in 1972 in which British Paratroopers shot dead 13 unarmed people in the Bogside area of Derry at a special screening earlier in the month. (AMcE)
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