Decision on transcripts for Omagh civil case due

THE Special Criminal Court is to deliver its judgment on Monday on whether transcripts and books of evidence from Real IRA-related trials will be handed over to the relatives of the Omagh bomb victims.

Lawyers representing the relatives are seeking the material as part of the €20 million civil action against five individuals and the Real IRA for the 1998 bombing that claimed the lives of 29 people and two unborn children.

The five, Michael McKevitt, Liam Campbell, Colm Murphy, Seamus Daly and Seamus McKenna are the defendants in the civil case being taken in the High Court in Belfast.