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Case Collapses Against Final Suspect in Northern Ireland's Deadliest Terrorist Attack
Source: VICE News
Case Collapses Against Final Suspect in Northern Ireland's Deadliest Terrorist Attack
By Sally Hayden
March 1, 2016 | 12:00 pm
Charges have been dropped against the only remaining suspect in the Omagh bombing, the largest mass murder carried out in Northern Ireland during the 30 years of sectarian conflict known as "the Troubles."
International human rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday also repeated its call for a full inquiry into the blast and the investigative failures that followed it.
A total of 29 people died when a 500lb bomb exploded in Omagh town center on Saturday August 15, 1998, in an attack that was carried out by the Real IRA.
Former bricklayer Seamus Daly, 44, was arrested in South Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 2014 and has been in custody since. On Tuesday, Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service dropped 29 murder charges against Daly, reportedly on the basis of "insufficient evidence."
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By Sally Hayden
March 1, 2016 | 12:00 pm
Charges have been dropped against the only remaining suspect in the Omagh bombing, the largest mass murder carried out in Northern Ireland during the 30 years of sectarian conflict known as "the Troubles."
International human rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday also repeated its call for a full inquiry into the blast and the investigative failures that followed it.
A total of 29 people died when a 500lb bomb exploded in Omagh town center on Saturday August 15, 1998, in an attack that was carried out by the Real IRA.
Former bricklayer Seamus Daly, 44, was arrested in South Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 2014 and has been in custody since. On Tuesday, Northern Ireland's Public Prosecution Service dropped 29 murder charges against Daly, reportedly on the basis of "insufficient evidence."
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Read more: https://news.vice.com/article/case-collapses-against-final-suspect-in-northern-irelands-deadliest-terrorist-attack-1