Omagh: second day of trial
The only man to be charged in connection with the Omagh bombing, in which 29 people died and more than 200 were injured, was facing the second day of trial today.
Publican Colm Murphy was appearing before a three-judge panel at Dublin’s no-jury Special Criminal Court charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion.
The 49-year-old father of four from Dundalk, Co Louth, is charged with conspiring to cause the explosion between August 13 and 16, 1998.
The court heard last week that Murphy was ‘‘complicit’’ in the blast on August 15, 1998, in Co Tyrone, just days after conspiring to cause another explosion in Banbridge, Co Down, which injured 35.
In a previous hearing Peter Charleton, prosecuting, had told the court there would be technical evidence in relation to mobile phones and the tracking of such phones, implicating Murphy.
Murphy, who is also a building contractor, has also been accused of membership of the IRA, an illegal organisation, but that count will be dealt with after the end of the bombing trial.
He has been remanded on continuing bail of £50,000. The trial is expected to last a month.
