Anger over 20yr term for terrorist.Byline: JAMES TAIT FANATICAL Real IRA chief Michael McKevitt Michael McKevitt (b. 4 September, 1949[1]) is an Irish republican who was convicted of directing terrorism as the leader of the paramilitary organisation, the Real IRA, which was responsible for the Omagh bombing (August 1998) which killed 29 people. started a 20-year jail sentence jail sentence jail n → peine f de prison last night - but relatives of the Omagh bombing victims claim judges "bottled it". They believe renegade republican warlord warlord, in modern Chinese history, autonomous regional military commander. In the political chaos following the death (1916) of republican China's first president and commander in chief, Yüan Shih-kai, central authority fell to the provincial military governors McKevitt, whose brutal 30-year terror campaign climaxed with the Omagh atrocity, should have faced a tougher sentence. McKevitt, 53, who claims he was the victim of a political show-trial, is the first man convicted in the Irish Republic of directing terrorism. He was sentenced to 20 years for running the Real IRA. And he got another six, to run concurrently, for membership of the outfit that murdered 20 people in Omagh five years ago. But with the Dublin Government operating a 25 per cent remission scheme, he could walk free in 2016. Michael Gallagher, whose son Aiden, 21, died in the Omagh massacre, said: "I think they bottled it. A tougher sentence would have been a stronger deterrent to terrorism." CAPTION(S): JAILED: McKevitt |
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