Omagh Bombing Inquiry: Former Senior Investigating Officer Believes Covert Agent Was Involved

Omagh bomber was an informer who was protected at expense of investigation, inquiry told

Former senior police officer says he believes ‘one of the people who brought the bomb to Omagh on the day was an agent’

Omagh Bombing Inquiry: Former senior investigating officer believes covert agent was involved

Retired Ch Supt Norman Baxter was the Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) of the Omagh Bombing investigation from May 2002 until he retired in November 2008.

Inquiry told PSNI had 19 'firm suspects' for Omagh attack

The police in Northern Ireland had a list of 19 "firm suspects" for the Omagh bombing, a public inquiry has been told.

Omagh bombing could have been prevented, inquiry told

THE Senior Investigating Officer (SIO) on the Omagh bombing for more than six years has claimed the atrocity could have prevented if dissident republican organisations at the time had been disrupted.Former Superintendent, Norman Baxter, today told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry he stood by comments made by him to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee in 2009 that there were opportunities to disrupt those responsible for the Real IRA attack which cla…