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Thu 02 Feb 2010No escaping issue of fabricated notes
BACKGROUND:The Omagh bombing joins a long list of atrocities for which no one has been convicted, CAROL COULTERLegal Affairs Editor
THE ISSUE of falsified Garda notes has dogged both trials of Colm Murphy in connection with the Omagh bombing. “There is no evidence before the court upon which a jury, properly charged, could convict the accused.” With these words Mr Justice Butler, presiding over the three-judge Special Criminal Court, directed that Colm Murphy should be acquitted of the charge of conspiracy to cause an explosion in Omagh in August 1998.
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