Ireland
Omagh prosecution case has ended
Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:24Three months since it began, the prosecution case against alleged Omagh bomber, Sean Hoey, has come to a close three months after it began.
Defence QC Orlando Pownall has now opened his case with an application to stop the trial.
In claiming that Mr Hoey had no case to answer, Mr Pownall initially attacked the DNA evidence against the 37-year-old electrician from Molly's Road in Jonesborough, south Armagh.
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The 58 counts on which he is charged include the murders of the 29 people killed in the Omagh bomb atrocity as well as other bomb, mortar and hoax bomb attacks carried out throughout Norther Ireland.
Mr Pownall claimed there was no fibre evidence to connect Mr Hoey with any of the devices nor did it corroborate any other evidence.
