OMAGH MPS CALL FOR FRESH INQUIRY
Omagh: MPs call for fresh inquiry
Spy agencies 'didn't pass on crucial evidence into atrocity'
BY SAM LISTER AND ADRIAN RUTHERFORD
A FRESH investigation must be launched immediately into what the intelligence services knew about the Omagh bombing, a damning Westminster report demanded today.
MPs carried out a Parliamentary investigation into claims that spy agencies failed to pass on crucial evidence about the Real IRA bombers after the atrocity that killed 29 people and unborn twins. The report by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee said many questions remained unanswered over how much the security services knew about the bombers' movements before the explosion. Victor Barker, whose son James was killed in the bombing, said he was not surprised by its findings.
"This is what we've suspected all along - that information was being hidden from us," he told the Belfast Telegraph today.
The report was highly critical of a previous review into Omagh ordered by the Prime Minister.
Today's report concluded: "The criminal justice system has failed to bring to justice those responsible for the Omagh bombing. The least that those who were bereaved or injured have the right to expect are answers to those questions."
Spy agencies 'didn't pass on crucial evidence into atrocity'
BY SAM LISTER AND ADRIAN RUTHERFORD
A FRESH investigation must be launched immediately into what the intelligence services knew about the Omagh bombing, a damning Westminster report demanded today.
MPs carried out a Parliamentary investigation into claims that spy agencies failed to pass on crucial evidence about the Real IRA bombers after the atrocity that killed 29 people and unborn twins. The report by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee said many questions remained unanswered over how much the security services knew about the bombers' movements before the explosion. Victor Barker, whose son James was killed in the bombing, said he was not surprised by its findings.
"This is what we've suspected all along - that information was being hidden from us," he told the Belfast Telegraph today.
The report was highly critical of a previous review into Omagh ordered by the Prime Minister.
Today's report concluded: "The criminal justice system has failed to bring to justice those responsible for the Omagh bombing. The least that those who were bereaved or injured have the right to expect are answers to those questions."
Further Information
Publisher: BELFAST TELEGRAPH
Ref: BT/1183
Published Date: 16-Mar-10
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