A UK high court ruled Friday there was a “real prospect” the 1998 Omagh bombing could have been prevented and recommended the British and Irish governments conduct fresh investigations into security arrangements ahead of the atrocity.A car bomb ripped through the Northern Irish town on 15 August 1998, killing 29 people and injuring 220 others in the deadliest single incident during three decades of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Horner added a human rights probe should consider if a more “proactive” security operation against them may have prevented it.The bomb was planted by dissident pro-Ireland republican group the Real IRA, which was opposed to the Good Friday peace deal signed in April 1998 that largely ended 30 years of sectarian strife in Northern Ireland.
No one has ever been criminally convicted for the atrocity, which drew widespread international condemnation and consolidated the peace process.– Probe needed -Horner considered the case after Michael Gallagher — whose son died in the blast — challenged a British government decision not to hold a public inquiry into it.
He said “any investigation will have to look specifically at the issue of whether a more proactive campaign of disruption, especially if coordinated north and south of the border, had a real prospect of preventing the Omagh bombing.”– ‘Obligation’ -Britain’s Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis said London would consider the judge’s recommendations carefully.
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