OMAGH BOMB HUSBAND SERVES WRITS
Omagh bomb husband serves writs
BY ANTON McCABE
OMAGH bomb victim Laurence Rush has served a writ on the North's Police Service and the Secretary of State, claiming that their negligence allowed the bombing to take place.
The government and the PSNI have now issued a summons in an attempt to prevent him proceeding with the case.
Mr Rush's wife, Libby, was killed instantly by the Real IRA bomb.
Solicitor Des Doherty who represents Rush, said that the action was the only way to get some answers.
"Unless in years to come there is going to be some sort of independent public inquiry into what really happened at Omagh my client's case is the only chance of getting to the truth in a public forum, said Doherty.
"Depressing as it is, I therefore expect the powers of the PSNI and the British government to do everything they can to stop Laurence proceeding."
Mr Rush's writ alleges the authorities failed to act on intelligence there was to be an attack in Omagh, failed to have sufficient police and security personnel on duty in the
town on the day to ensure civilians could be evacuated and failed to fully and thoroughly investigate the crime.
The writ states the security forces had good intelligence on the Real IRA at the time of the bombing.
"That proscribed organisation had been infiltrated by an informer, one Kevin Fulton, who fed to the security forces information about the Real IRA in general and the threat of a bomb attack on a town in Northern Ireland and Omagh in particular," it says.
"Furthermore, the defendants or their agents or servants had other information of very good quality which would have indicated to them where and when a bomb was intended, sufficient to have prevented the bomb being planted and detonated in Omagh on the afternoon of August 15, 1998. The defendants or one of them had a sufficient quality of information to apprehend the perpetrators or prevent the planning of the bomb at Omagh on August 15, 1998 which directly caused the death of Libby Rush."
Mr Rush said he wanted the truth to be known. "This is me against the government and the security establishment," he said.
BY ANTON McCABE
OMAGH bomb victim Laurence Rush has served a writ on the North's Police Service and the Secretary of State, claiming that their negligence allowed the bombing to take place.
The government and the PSNI have now issued a summons in an attempt to prevent him proceeding with the case.
Mr Rush's wife, Libby, was killed instantly by the Real IRA bomb.
Solicitor Des Doherty who represents Rush, said that the action was the only way to get some answers.
"Unless in years to come there is going to be some sort of independent public inquiry into what really happened at Omagh my client's case is the only chance of getting to the truth in a public forum, said Doherty.
"Depressing as it is, I therefore expect the powers of the PSNI and the British government to do everything they can to stop Laurence proceeding."
Mr Rush's writ alleges the authorities failed to act on intelligence there was to be an attack in Omagh, failed to have sufficient police and security personnel on duty in the
town on the day to ensure civilians could be evacuated and failed to fully and thoroughly investigate the crime.
The writ states the security forces had good intelligence on the Real IRA at the time of the bombing.
"That proscribed organisation had been infiltrated by an informer, one Kevin Fulton, who fed to the security forces information about the Real IRA in general and the threat of a bomb attack on a town in Northern Ireland and Omagh in particular," it says.
"Furthermore, the defendants or their agents or servants had other information of very good quality which would have indicated to them where and when a bomb was intended, sufficient to have prevented the bomb being planted and detonated in Omagh on the afternoon of August 15, 1998. The defendants or one of them had a sufficient quality of information to apprehend the perpetrators or prevent the planning of the bomb at Omagh on August 15, 1998 which directly caused the death of Libby Rush."
Mr Rush said he wanted the truth to be known. "This is me against the government and the security establishment," he said.
Further Information
Publisher: TYRONE HERALD
Ref: TYH/018
Published Date: 13-Jun-05
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