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L’unico uomo a non essere mai stato condannato per la strage di Omagh, è stato sollevato per la seconda volta dall’accusa di aver progettato l’attentato

Colm Murphy venne giudicato colpevole, in prima istanza (2002), di cospirazione nell’attentato di Omagh nell’agosto 1998, in cui rimasero uccise 29 persone e più di 300 furono i feriti. La sentenza venne cancellata in appello.
Murphy ha poi dovuto affrontare un nuovo processo al ‘Non-jury Special Criminal Court’ di Dublino, ma anche in questo caso i tre giudici hanno dovuto prosciolgere l’imputato per mancanza di prove permettendogli di abbandonare la corte a piede libero.
Colm Murphy, 57 anni, si era sempre proclamato non colpevole e stavo godendo del regime di libertà vigilata dopo la favorevole sentenza di appello del 2005.
E’ il secondo uomo ad essere totalmente assolto, dopo Sean Hoey che spese anni della sua vita nel carcere di Maghaberry finchè nel 2007 non venne totalmente assolto di tutte le accuse connesse alla strage di Omagh e ad altri attentati ‘firmati’ dal Real IRA.

Man cleared over Omagh bomb plot (U TV)
The only man ever convicted over the Omagh bombing has been cleared for a second time of plotting to cause the attack.
Murphy was found guilty of conspiracy to cause the 1998 Real IRA atrocity which killed 29 people and injured more than 300 but later cleared on appeal.
The builder, who was facing a retrial at the non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin, walked free on Wednesday after three judges ruled there was no evidence with which he could be convicted.
Murphy, 57, who is originally from Co Armagh but has an address at Jordan’s Corner, Ravensdale, Co Louth, had pleaded not guilty to conspiring with another person to cause an explosion likely to endanger life or cause serious injury to property in the State or elsewhere between August 13 and 16 1998.
Murphy had been on bail since his successful appeal in 2005.
The prosecution claimed he lent two mobile phones to a man who was involved in transporting the car bomb from Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, to the Co Tyrone market town, where it exploded on August 15.
The Real IRA later claimed responsibility for the bomb attack, which was the worst terrorist atrocity in the history of the Troubles.
Murphy was originally convicted of the charge in 2002 but the Irish Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial in 2005.
He is the second man to be acquitted.
Sean Hoey, a South Armagh electrician, walked free from Belfast Crown Court in December 2007 after a judge cleared him of all charges related to the bombing and a host of other Real IRA attacks.