OMAGH OFFICERS GET MORE TIME TO QUIZ PAIR
Omagh: officers get more time to quiz pair
POLICE have been granted an extension of time to question a couple arrested over the Omagh bomb atrocity.
The man has been questioned before by police about the bombing.
The husband and wife were being held in Gough Barracks in Armagh city and were also being questioned about a series of other attacks carried out by dissident republicans opposed to the peace process.
These include bombings in Lisburn, Newry and Banbridge, which came before the Omagh attack.
Officers probing the Omagh bombing ordered the couple's detention after widening their inquiries in a bid to bring the Real IRA killers to justice.
Up to 200 police and troops were involved in a security swoop to seize the couple at a house in Jonesborough, south Armagh.
Senior security sources said the arrests represented a significant breakthrough in the five-year hunt.
It is understood the arrests were linked to one of the cars which is thought have been used at the time the 5001b bomb was transported through the Tyrone countryside before being abandoned.
One of the misleading bomb warnings which left police ushering hundreds of civilians into the path of the car bomb instead of away from lower Market Street was made from a telephone box in south Armagh.
Even though police on both sides of the border have identified the men they suspect were responsible, nobody has been charged with any of the murders.
The alleged Real IRA leader at the time of Omagh, Michael McKevitt, 51, was jailed for 20 years last month for directing terrorism and Colm Murphy, 51, was sentenced to 14 years for conspiring to cause an explosion.
They, along with Seamus Daly, of Co Monaghan, Seamus McKenna, of Silverbridge, south Armagh, and Liam Campbell, of Dundalk - have been named in a civil action which some victims' families are taking.
POLICE have been granted an extension of time to question a couple arrested over the Omagh bomb atrocity.
The man has been questioned before by police about the bombing.
The husband and wife were being held in Gough Barracks in Armagh city and were also being questioned about a series of other attacks carried out by dissident republicans opposed to the peace process.
These include bombings in Lisburn, Newry and Banbridge, which came before the Omagh attack.
Officers probing the Omagh bombing ordered the couple's detention after widening their inquiries in a bid to bring the Real IRA killers to justice.
Up to 200 police and troops were involved in a security swoop to seize the couple at a house in Jonesborough, south Armagh.
Senior security sources said the arrests represented a significant breakthrough in the five-year hunt.
It is understood the arrests were linked to one of the cars which is thought have been used at the time the 5001b bomb was transported through the Tyrone countryside before being abandoned.
One of the misleading bomb warnings which left police ushering hundreds of civilians into the path of the car bomb instead of away from lower Market Street was made from a telephone box in south Armagh.
Even though police on both sides of the border have identified the men they suspect were responsible, nobody has been charged with any of the murders.
The alleged Real IRA leader at the time of Omagh, Michael McKevitt, 51, was jailed for 20 years last month for directing terrorism and Colm Murphy, 51, was sentenced to 14 years for conspiring to cause an explosion.
They, along with Seamus Daly, of Co Monaghan, Seamus McKenna, of Silverbridge, south Armagh, and Liam Campbell, of Dundalk - have been named in a civil action which some victims' families are taking.
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Publisher: NEWS LETTER
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Published Date: 04-Sep-03
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