Daily Times
July 24, 2021
A UK high court ruled Friday there was a “real prospect” the 1998 Omagh bombing could have been prevented and recommended the British and Irish governments conduct fresh investigations into security arrangements ahead of the atrocity.
A car bomb ripped through the Northern Irish town on 15 August 1998, killing 29 people and injuring 220 others in the deadliest single incident during three decades of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
“Certain grounds, when considered separately or together, give rise to plausible allegations that there was a real prospect of preventing the Omagh bombing,” said Judge Mark Horner in Belfast.
He added this included “consideration of terrorist activity on both sides of the border by prominent dissident terrorist republicans” before the bombing.
UK judge rules real prospect 1998 Omagh bombing was preventable
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