CONFIDENTIAL TELEPHONE LINE TO AID OMAGH BOMB INVESTIGATION
Confidential telephone line to aid Omagh bomb investigation
A CONFIDENTIAL telephone line has been set up in a bid to bring the Omagh bombers to justice.
It was set up just 24 hours before the latest three to be arrested in connection with the investigation into the Omagh bombing were released without charge.
The hotline is the latest attempt being deployed by legal teams acting for the bereaved families as they continue efforts to bring the Real IRA killers to court.
The phoneline will be manned during business hours and at night will take the form of a confidential answering machine on which callers can leave information.
Campaigners hope people who may have been apprehensive about giving information to police will call the confidential number which is
020 7539 7234.
The Omagh Support and Self Help Group is hoping that people, namely republicans, who felt they could not give information to the RUC or Gardai, will give it through this independent and confidential line.
The Group is also calling for the Real IRA to be put on the US list of proscribed terrorist organisations as it was responsible for the deadliest terrorist act in Europe in 1998.
Meanwhile the families solicitor, Jason McCue stressed that the telephone hotline was not a substitute for the investigation by the security forces.
He hoped that the telephone line would encourage people to step forward who might otherwise remain silent.
"The more information gathered, the more likely that we will achieve justice," he said.
Civil cases are currently being prepared against up to six people suspected of the bombing.
Meanwhile the three people arrested in connection with the Omagh bombing investigation were released without charge on Saturday night.
One of those arrested and detained in Monaghan garda station is believed to have been among a number of men named in the Panorama programme.
The two men and a woman in her early thirties, were arrested last Friday and Saturday in Counties Monaghan and Louth and detained under the legislation that allows suspects to be held in custody for up to 72 hours before either being charged or set free.
The three who were released on Saturday brings to twelve the number of arrests in recent weeks in relation to the bomb.
Ten of those arrested have been released without charge while two men have appeared in Dublin's special criminal court accused of arms possession and membership of an illegal organisation.
A CONFIDENTIAL telephone line has been set up in a bid to bring the Omagh bombers to justice.
It was set up just 24 hours before the latest three to be arrested in connection with the investigation into the Omagh bombing were released without charge.
The hotline is the latest attempt being deployed by legal teams acting for the bereaved families as they continue efforts to bring the Real IRA killers to court.
The phoneline will be manned during business hours and at night will take the form of a confidential answering machine on which callers can leave information.
Campaigners hope people who may have been apprehensive about giving information to police will call the confidential number which is
020 7539 7234.
The Omagh Support and Self Help Group is hoping that people, namely republicans, who felt they could not give information to the RUC or Gardai, will give it through this independent and confidential line.
The Group is also calling for the Real IRA to be put on the US list of proscribed terrorist organisations as it was responsible for the deadliest terrorist act in Europe in 1998.
Meanwhile the families solicitor, Jason McCue stressed that the telephone hotline was not a substitute for the investigation by the security forces.
He hoped that the telephone line would encourage people to step forward who might otherwise remain silent.
"The more information gathered, the more likely that we will achieve justice," he said.
Civil cases are currently being prepared against up to six people suspected of the bombing.
Meanwhile the three people arrested in connection with the Omagh bombing investigation were released without charge on Saturday night.
One of those arrested and detained in Monaghan garda station is believed to have been among a number of men named in the Panorama programme.
The two men and a woman in her early thirties, were arrested last Friday and Saturday in Counties Monaghan and Louth and detained under the legislation that allows suspects to be held in custody for up to 72 hours before either being charged or set free.
The three who were released on Saturday brings to twelve the number of arrests in recent weeks in relation to the bomb.
Ten of those arrested have been released without charge while two men have appeared in Dublin's special criminal court accused of arms possession and membership of an illegal organisation.
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Publisher: ULSTER HERALD
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Published Date: 09-Nov-00
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