Omagh relatives warn of legal action over files

THE British government faces legal action within a week if it does not hand over intelligence files that could have helped catch the Omagh bombers, grieving relatives warned yesterday.

Revelations that the security services were recording the Real IRA plotters’ phone calls on the way to Omagh in 1998 left them with no other option, family members told a meeting in Belfast.

Twenty-nine people, plus unborn twins, died in the worst atrocity of the Northern Ireland conflict.