Inquiry told PSNI had 19 'firm suspects' for Omagh attack

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The police in Northern Ireland had a list of 19 "firm suspects" for the Omagh bombing, a public inquiry has been told.

The police in Northern Ireland had a list of 19 "firm suspects" for the Omagh bombing, a public inquiry has been told.

It was drawn up in February 2003 by the senior PSNI officer who was in charge of the investigation at the time.

It had been whittled down from a much longer list of 66 suspects as the murder investigation progressed.

The revised list included names of those understood to have had direct involvement in the construction and delivery of the bomb as well as dissident leaders.

Also on the list were more peripheral figures believed to have supplied mobile phones for use in the attack.

Some of those named included those accused of involvement in the attack in previous civil and criminal proceedings.

They include Colm Murphy, Liam Campbell, Seamus Daly and Seamus McKenna, Sean Hoey and Michael McKevitt.

Murphy, Campbell, McKevitt and Daly were found liable in a civil action. Mr McKenna was found not liable. He died later in a workplace accident.

Others were suspects who were arrested but never charged. A number of those on the list are now dead.

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