06/11/2012
Omagh Bomb Retrial Delayed
The retrial of two men over the Omagh bomb has been delayed until next year.
Colm Murphy and Seamus Delay are facing being sued over the 1998 Real IRA Attack in Omagh, in which 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, were killed.
But the illness of a defence lawyer has now meant the trial will have to be postponed. Mr Justice Gillen said the trial would begin on 14 January.
The case was supposed to have started last month and is expected to last for about six weeks.
The two men’s appeals against being held liable for the bombing were originally upheld.
Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt and dissident republican Liam Campbell were also held responsible for the bombing. They failed to have the findings against them overturned.
It has also been revealed that British and Irish government officials are studying a report into the bombing.
Murphy and Daly’s defence lawyers have launched a bid to gain access to the dossier, which has been commissioned by the Omagh Self-Help and Support Group.
The families of victims of the Omagh bomb believe it contains evidence that the bomb could have been prevented.
No-one has ever been convicted of the bombing in the County Tyrone town, although four men, McKevitt, Daly, Murphy and Campbell, a farmer from County Louth, were found liable for the bombing in June 2009 and ordered to pay £1.6m in compensation.
Last year in July the Court of Appeal upheld the appeals of Murphy and Daly.
(IT/GK)
Colm Murphy and Seamus Delay are facing being sued over the 1998 Real IRA Attack in Omagh, in which 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, were killed.
But the illness of a defence lawyer has now meant the trial will have to be postponed. Mr Justice Gillen said the trial would begin on 14 January.
The case was supposed to have started last month and is expected to last for about six weeks.
The two men’s appeals against being held liable for the bombing were originally upheld.
Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt and dissident republican Liam Campbell were also held responsible for the bombing. They failed to have the findings against them overturned.
It has also been revealed that British and Irish government officials are studying a report into the bombing.
Murphy and Daly’s defence lawyers have launched a bid to gain access to the dossier, which has been commissioned by the Omagh Self-Help and Support Group.
The families of victims of the Omagh bomb believe it contains evidence that the bomb could have been prevented.
No-one has ever been convicted of the bombing in the County Tyrone town, although four men, McKevitt, Daly, Murphy and Campbell, a farmer from County Louth, were found liable for the bombing in June 2009 and ordered to pay £1.6m in compensation.
Last year in July the Court of Appeal upheld the appeals of Murphy and Daly.
(IT/GK)
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