The Real IRA bomb killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with unborn twins, just months after the Good Friday Agreement was signed
Colm Murphy, who was found liable in a civil trial for the 1998 Omagh bomb atrocity, died in Drogheda, it emerged this evening.Read more: Prosecutors continue to consider Stakeknife files for other suspects
In 2002 he was found guilty by the Dublin Special Criminal Court of conspiracy to cause the Omagh bombing and jailed for 14 years. However, his conviction was overturned in 2005 and a new trial ordered. The following year in Belfast a judge in the civil trial ruled that Murphy and four others were all liable for the Omagh bomb, ordering them to pay a total of £1.6 million damages to 12 relatives who took the case.
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