Europe Court Dismisses Claim Omagh Bombing Trial Was ‘Unfair’ Ruling Final

International13 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 Europe court dismisses claim Omagh bombing trial was ‘unfair’ Ruling final STRASBOURG, FRANCE: Europe’s top “adequate opportunity” to challenge overturned and were ordered to face a rights court yesterday dismissed an the evidence from the FBI agent. “In retrial. But their retrial ended with a sim- attempt by two men held liable for the light of this, the Court found that the ilar finding of responsibility, with a 1998 Omagh bombing, the worst atroci- national court’s findings could not be Belfast High Court judge citing “over- ty of the Northern Ireland Troubles, to said to have been arbitrary or unreason- whelming” evidence against them. have the civil ruling against them over- able,” seven ECHR judges concluded in a In 2014, Daly became the first man to turned. unanimous ruling. be charged over the attack. He was held LONDON: Britain’s Metropolitan Police Commissioner No one has ever been convicted over The Omagh bombing rocked in a high-security prison for nearly two Bernard Hogan-Howe speaks to media at the the car bomb that ripped through the Northern Ireland, coming just four years before being freed in March after Metropolitan Police Control Center yesterday.—AP County Tyrone town on August 15, months after nationalist and unionist the case against him collapsed. 1998, killing 29 people, including a parties had inked a peace deal ending Campbell and McKevitt, who is serving a woman pregnant with twins. A civil case the worst of the violence that had 20-year prison sentence in Ireland for UK’s most senior in 2009 held Michael McKevitt, founder plagued the British province for three directing terrorism, have failed in all of an Irish Republican Army (IRA) splin- decades. Two of the four men held liable their attempts to have the civil finding police officer ter group that claimed responsibility for for the attack-Seamus Daly and Colm of their responsibility overturned. The the attack, and Liam Campbell liable for Murphy-successfully had the ruling ECHR’s ruling is final.—AFP the carnage, along with two others. retiring February The four men were ordered to pay damages of £1.6 million ($2.0 million, Berlin store manager allegedly LONDON: Britain’s most senior police oﬃcer has announced 1.8 million euros at today’s exchange he’ll retire in February, seven months before his contract rates) to the victims’ families. McKevitt beats shoplifter to death expires. Bernard Hogan-Howe’s resignation comes amid sug- and Campbell complained their trial was gestions of tensions with London Mayor Sadiq Khan - though unfair, saying that, given the gravity of BERLIN: Berlin police say a 29-year- turning him over to police, authori- the newly elected leader denied he was behind the decision. the accusations, the Belfast court should old supermarket manager is under ties say he beat the man. It also comes before the release of a report on police handling have applied a criminal rather than civil arrest on charges he beat an alleged Two days later, the victim went to of historic child sex abuse claims. standard of proof. shoplifter so badly that he died of his a doctor in the capital’s Lichtenberg Hogan-Howe says he’ll remain in his post to oﬀer time to They also argued that admitting evi- injuries. Police said yesterday that district with serious facial injuries, find a successor. The 58-year-old Metropolitan Police commis- dence from an FBI agent who had not they are looking into further similar and was taken immediately to the sioner’s achievements included a successful 2012 London been cross-examined in court was occurrences at the same store. hospital. One day later, he died of Olympics and an 18-percent drop in London’s crime rate. unjust. The European Court for Human Police say the victim, a 34-year-old head injuries. But the latter part of his tenure has been dogged by con- Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg dismissed Moldovan man, was seized by the Police say the store manager was troversy over Operation Midland, a two-year investigation their complaints, saying a civil case did market operator on Sept. 17 and arrested Tuesday on charges of bodi- into claims that VIPs were linked to pedophile rings. No one not have to meet criminal standards and accused of shoplifting. Instead of ly harm causing death.—AP has been charged.—AP that the defendants had been given.

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