Adverts urge Republicans to break silence over Omagh bombers

DETECTIVES hunting the Omagh bombers are to put republican support for the North’s police service to the test with a series of newspaper adverts urging full co-operation.

With investigators seeking information on the Vauxhall Cavalier used by Real IRA terrorists to kill 29 people in August 1998, the appeal is directed at those living on either side of the Border where the car travelled through.

Only one man, south Armagh electrician Sean Hoey, 37, has been charged with the Omagh atrocity. He is waiting a judge’s verdict after standing trial in Belfast for the murders.