Omagh suspect seeks DNA help

AN electrician accused of making the Omagh bomb is bringing in a DNA expert in a bid to prove police bias, a court in the North was told yesterday.

Sean Gerard Hoey, aged 34, denies plotting a string of terrorist attacks leading up to the Real IRA massacre in August 1998.

He faces 18 charges involving explosives and membership of the dissident republican organisation behind the Omagh outrage.