Ulster Unionist MLA and former Victims’ Commissioner Mike Nesbitt has responded to a Belfast High Court ruling that there are ‘plausible allegations that there was a real prospect of preventing the Omagh bombing.’
Mike Nesbitt said:
“The full ruling by Mr Justice Horner has not yet been released and it will obviously require very close scrutiny.
“My thoughts today, as always, are with the victims and survivors of the Omagh atrocity of 15th August 1998.
“Whatever detail is contained in the full ruling, the fact remains that the Omagh bomb was the work of the terrorists who chose to make it, transport it and detonate it in a market town on a busy August Saturday afternoon.“