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Omagh Bombing Victim’s Husband: I’m Finished with Inquiry After Garda Evidence
Lead counsel said the inquiry will use statutory powers after hearing only about two of 53 questions answered by Irish state witnesses.
- On Thursday, the Omagh Bombing Inquiry played a recorded "sequence of events" statement from Detective Superintendent Emmet Casserly of the Special Detective Unit. The evidence, recorded in Dublin earlier this month, detailed the original Garda investigation into the 1998 car bombing.
- The maroon Vauxhall Cavalier used in the 1998 attack was stolen from Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, between August 12 and 13, investigators confirmed. Casserly noted the investigation was hindered by lack of CCTV and detailed descriptions.
- Under bespoke legislation enacted this year, the Irish Justice Minister agreed on an "expressly exceptional basis" for the evidence to be questioned by inquiry counsel. Lead counsel Paul Greaney KC acknowledged this method had "limitations" and was not the "fully dynamic process" of live witness questioning.
- Kevin Skelton, whose wife Philomena died in the blast, described watching the evidence as "torture" and accused the Irish Government of "not co-operating" with the inquiry. Skelton claimed only two of 53 submitted questions received answers.
- Inquiry counsel emphasized they "fully intend to utilise the statutory procedure to seek answers from the Republic of Ireland" regarding outstanding questions about the car theft. Future hearings will continue examining the bombing's planning and responsibility.
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Omagh bombing victim’s husband: I’m finished with inquiry after Garda evidence - 'The Irish Government is not co-operating, they never have', says Kevin Skelton
A man who lost his wife in the Omagh bombing has said he is “finished” with a public inquiry into the atrocity following the delivery of video evidence from a senior Garda officer.
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