BOMB WAS DELIBERATELY LET THROUGH TO END THE TROUBLES, SISTER CLAIMS
Bomb was deliberately let through to end the Troubles, sister claims
BY ADRIAN MULLAN
THE sister of a man killed in the Omagh bomb said that the truth may never come out as to what happened on August 15 1998.
Trudy Sharkey's brother Brian McCrory was one of 29 people and unborn twins killed when the Real IRA detonated a bomb in Market Street during what was to be a carnival day.
Speaking yesterday as the Police Ombudsman's report was published Trudy expressed the view that the bomb may have been allowed into Omagh to 'finish' the Troubles.
She said that if MI5 were involved in any way that the families of those who lost relatives would never get to find out the truth. Mrs Sharkey said that shortly after the atrocity she had heard that one of the people who made the bomb may have been working for M15 but that at the time she discounted that. "I didn't want to know at the time, but now it looks as if there may be some truth to it."
LUDICROUS
"I suppose when I heard it first I thought it was ludicrous because I thought why pick on Omagh a wee harmless town? The idea seemed so blown out of all proportion that you thought it couldn't be on such a large scale like that. But I believe that there could be some truth to it now."
Trudy does not believe that the police on the ground were involved. "I think it was higher up the ladder. I would say that this was higher than them way above their heads. A lot of the police officers are from the town they couldn't watch out for them or the word would get around that they knew something. They higher authorities were prepared to lose police they were prepared to let the ordinary policemen die to make it look better for them."
She went on to say that nothing would surprise or shock her anymore but said she would have little faith in a public inquiry. "I think there would be a lot of people making money out of it and really it's the ordinary people who have lost family who would like to know what was at the end of it."
She added that it was painful to think that one's relatives were used just to prove something.
She said that the recent terrorist attacks on the United States bad brought it all back to many of the families of the victims of the Omagh blast and added that Christmas would be a difficult time.
"You never really put it out of your mind but now there are people making money out of it. Papers are being sold that might not have been sold coming up to Christmas. Omagh's going to be in most of the large newspapers but they are not thinking about the people of Omagh. They are thinking about selling there newspapers and magazines.
BY ADRIAN MULLAN
THE sister of a man killed in the Omagh bomb said that the truth may never come out as to what happened on August 15 1998.
Trudy Sharkey's brother Brian McCrory was one of 29 people and unborn twins killed when the Real IRA detonated a bomb in Market Street during what was to be a carnival day.
Speaking yesterday as the Police Ombudsman's report was published Trudy expressed the view that the bomb may have been allowed into Omagh to 'finish' the Troubles.
She said that if MI5 were involved in any way that the families of those who lost relatives would never get to find out the truth. Mrs Sharkey said that shortly after the atrocity she had heard that one of the people who made the bomb may have been working for M15 but that at the time she discounted that. "I didn't want to know at the time, but now it looks as if there may be some truth to it."
LUDICROUS
"I suppose when I heard it first I thought it was ludicrous because I thought why pick on Omagh a wee harmless town? The idea seemed so blown out of all proportion that you thought it couldn't be on such a large scale like that. But I believe that there could be some truth to it now."
Trudy does not believe that the police on the ground were involved. "I think it was higher up the ladder. I would say that this was higher than them way above their heads. A lot of the police officers are from the town they couldn't watch out for them or the word would get around that they knew something. They higher authorities were prepared to lose police they were prepared to let the ordinary policemen die to make it look better for them."
She went on to say that nothing would surprise or shock her anymore but said she would have little faith in a public inquiry. "I think there would be a lot of people making money out of it and really it's the ordinary people who have lost family who would like to know what was at the end of it."
She added that it was painful to think that one's relatives were used just to prove something.
She said that the recent terrorist attacks on the United States bad brought it all back to many of the families of the victims of the Omagh blast and added that Christmas would be a difficult time.
"You never really put it out of your mind but now there are people making money out of it. Papers are being sold that might not have been sold coming up to Christmas. Omagh's going to be in most of the large newspapers but they are not thinking about the people of Omagh. They are thinking about selling there newspapers and magazines.
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Publisher: ULSTER HERALD
Ref: UH/0884
Published Date: 13-Dec-01
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