'NO EVIDENCE' ON OMAGH BOMBING.THE case against a man accused of the Omagh bombing The Omagh bombing was a paramilitary car bomb attack carried out by the Real IRA (RIRA), a splinter group of former Provisional Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Belfast Agreement, on August 15, 1998, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. massacre will collapse because there is no admissible evidence admissible evidence n. evidence which the trial judge finds is useful in helping the trier of fact (a jury if there is a jury, otherwise the judge), and which cannot be objected to on the basis that it is irrelevant, immaterial, or violates the rules against hearsay , a lawyer claimed in court yesterday. Sean Hoey, a 35-year-old electrician from Molly Road, Jonesborough, South Armagh, faces 61 terrorist and explosives charges including the Real IRA atrocity in Omagh seven years ago. A committal com·mit·tal n. 1. The act of entrusting: committal of the property to an attorney. 2. The act or an instance of committing to confinement. 3. hearing is due to be held on August 30, but Hoey's solicitor Peter Corrigan claimed the evidence against him was insufficient to send him for trial. Mr Corrigan told Belfast Magistrates Court that during interviews it was put to Hoey that because other bombs he is allegedly linked to were constructed in a similar way he must have been the person who made the Omagh bomb. He said: "The prosecution case at its highest is that he may have constructed the device in Omagh - and I emphasise the word may." He added that if the magistrate at the committal hearing was of the same view, Hoey would not be sent for trial because the evidence against him was too weak. Yesterday's hearing had been adjourned from Wednesday for the prosecution to consider Mr Corrigan's application for a summary of the argument relating to the forensic evidence. The hearing was adjourned until August 19. |
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