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One of the men who was sued in a civil action over the Omagh bombing is being kept in jail in the North while a judge decides whether a legal bid to extradite him to Lithuania should be held in Belfast or Dublin.

Dundalk farmer Liam Campbell (46) was arrested in Co Armagh last Friday when police rammed his car after discovering he had crossed the Border from the Republic of Ireland.