OMAGH BOMB INFORMER FLEES ABROAD
Omagh bomb informer flees abroad
A CAR thief from Dublin who is wanted for questioning about the Omagh bombing has fled the UK, relatives of the victims have been told.
Paddy Dixon, a garda informant, is claimed to have passed a warning to the Gardai before the 1998 atrocity was carried out.
But efforts by the PSNI's Omagh bomb investigation team to meet and interview Dixon through the Garda and Irish Department of Justice have been thwarted.
The news that Dixon has fled abroad has been described as "extremely disappointing" by Michael Gallagher, of the Omagh Relatives Support Group.
He said, "We suspected that Dixon was in the UK for quite some time but now were are given to understand that he's probably left the jurisdiction."
A few months ago, a Conservative MP used parliamentary privilege to name Dixon after he had been stopped by police in Cardiff in July this year.
On that occasion he was detained by Customs and Excise officials at Cardiff Airport, carrying a sum of cash in a holdall. But, despite being questioned for three hours, Dixon was released with out the knowledge of the PSNI.
During Northern Ireland Question Time in October, Tewkesbury MP Laurence Robertson claimed the Irish authorities had refused to hand the man over to the PSNI.
A CAR thief from Dublin who is wanted for questioning about the Omagh bombing has fled the UK, relatives of the victims have been told.
Paddy Dixon, a garda informant, is claimed to have passed a warning to the Gardai before the 1998 atrocity was carried out.
But efforts by the PSNI's Omagh bomb investigation team to meet and interview Dixon through the Garda and Irish Department of Justice have been thwarted.
The news that Dixon has fled abroad has been described as "extremely disappointing" by Michael Gallagher, of the Omagh Relatives Support Group.
He said, "We suspected that Dixon was in the UK for quite some time but now were are given to understand that he's probably left the jurisdiction."
A few months ago, a Conservative MP used parliamentary privilege to name Dixon after he had been stopped by police in Cardiff in July this year.
On that occasion he was detained by Customs and Excise officials at Cardiff Airport, carrying a sum of cash in a holdall. But, despite being questioned for three hours, Dixon was released with out the knowledge of the PSNI.
During Northern Ireland Question Time in October, Tewkesbury MP Laurence Robertson claimed the Irish authorities had refused to hand the man over to the PSNI.
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Publisher: TYRONE HERALD
Ref: TYH/004
Published Date: 13-Dec-04
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