Naming Omagh suspects `wrong'

The spokesman for the North's human rights organisation, FAIT, has accepted that he was wrong and acted contrary to the group…

The spokesman for the North's human rights organisation, FAIT, has accepted that he was wrong and acted contrary to the group's policy when he named two men allegedly behind the Omagh bombing at the UK Unionist Party conference.

The FAIT management committee accepted Mr Vincent McKenna's explanation for making the comments and said it understood he would not repeat them.

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