Big_Bird
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 Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:35 pm Post subject: Four Real IRA leaders found liable for Omagh bombing |
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Finally, some sort of justice for the families. Though I would have preferred to see the perpetrators behind bars.
Four Real IRA leaders found liable for Omagh bombing
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Northern Ireland judge awards victims' families �1.6m damages over 1998 atrocity that killed 29 people.
Four leaders of the Real IRA have been found liable for the 1998 Omagh bombing in a landmark civil case brought by the families of those killed.
The judge awarded more than �1.6m in damages to 12 relatives who pursued the case after criminal prosecutions failed.
The men found liable � Michael McKevitt, regarded as the founder of the Real IRA, Liam Campbell, Seamus Daly and Colm Murphy � were named in court as leaders of the Real IRA. A fifth man, Seamus McKenna, was cleared of any involvement.
Henry McDonald on the civil case against leaders of the Real IRA Link to this audio The Northern Ireland lord chief justice, Declan Morgan, said in his ruling that there was "overwhelming evidence" the four were connected to the explosion. He recommended that the 12 families who brought the case receive compensation ranging from �60,000 to �100,000 each. The awards will have to be pursued by the seizure of assets belonging to the four men.
Victor Barker, whose 12-year-old son James was killed, welcomed the ruling. "I am absolutely delighted that at long last we have got some justice for the Omagh families," he said. "After this judgment, now is the time for the entire republican community throughout Ireland to treat these people [the Real IRA] as pariahs."
One of those found liable today, Colm Murphy, had been found guilty in Dublin's special criminal court of conspiring to cause the Omagh bomb, but his conviction was later quashed.
The only man to face criminal charges, Sean Hoey, from Jonesborough, South Armagh, was acquitted in December 2007.
The bombing in August 1998 was the single biggest atrocity of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Twenty-nine people were killed in Omagh, a County Tyrone market town, including a woman pregnant with twins, as well as children from Northern Ireland, England and Spain.
The Omagh civil action became the first case to be heard on both sides of the Irish border after garda� � the police of the Irish Republic � were granted special permission to give evidence about the bomb plot and the Real IRA.
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