McKevitt ‘hatched plot to kill Blair’

ALLEGED Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt recruited an ex-French Foreign Legion weapons expert as a sleeper agent, to be used if a plot was hatched to murder Prime Minister Tony Blair, it has been claimed.

McKevitt wanted his new terror organisation's first strike to be bigger than the Omagh bomb atrocity, a court heard yesterday.

The allegations were made at the Special Criminal Court by FBI agent David Rupert, the key prosecution witness in the trial of the man accused of masterminding the dissident republican group behind the August 1998 Omagh attack, which killed 29 people and two unborn babies, and injured hundreds more.