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25/09/2006
Omagh bomb accused trial resumes
The trial of the man accused of carrying out the 1998 Omagh bombing has resumed today in Belfast.
The trial of Sean Gerard Hoey, a 37-year-old electrician from Jonesborough in County Armagh, began this morning after being adjourned earlier this month when the defence lawyer Orlando Pownall QC, said that he was too ill to commence with proceedings.
Twenty-nine people, including unborn twins, died in Northern Ireland's single worst terrorist atrocity, on August 15 1998, after a car bomb exploded in the town centre.
So far, Hoey is the only person to be charged in connection with the murders.
He faces 58 charges, including five other bombings, four bomb conspiracies, and six murder conspiracies.
He denies all the charges.
A video-link system is to be set up between Omagh college and Laganside Court throughout the hearing, and trial judge Mr Justice Weir has warned that the facility is solely for the use of the victims and their families and that the same rules are to be applied in Omagh, as they would be if they were in court.
The trial, is expected to be one of the biggest in British and Irish legal history, and is likely to be one of the last major non-jury trials to be held in Northern Ireland.
(EF/KMcA)
The trial of Sean Gerard Hoey, a 37-year-old electrician from Jonesborough in County Armagh, began this morning after being adjourned earlier this month when the defence lawyer Orlando Pownall QC, said that he was too ill to commence with proceedings.
Twenty-nine people, including unborn twins, died in Northern Ireland's single worst terrorist atrocity, on August 15 1998, after a car bomb exploded in the town centre.
So far, Hoey is the only person to be charged in connection with the murders.
He faces 58 charges, including five other bombings, four bomb conspiracies, and six murder conspiracies.
He denies all the charges.
A video-link system is to be set up between Omagh college and Laganside Court throughout the hearing, and trial judge Mr Justice Weir has warned that the facility is solely for the use of the victims and their families and that the same rules are to be applied in Omagh, as they would be if they were in court.
The trial, is expected to be one of the biggest in British and Irish legal history, and is likely to be one of the last major non-jury trials to be held in Northern Ireland.
(EF/KMcA)
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