Families set for court as Omagh inquiry ruled out

Families of Omagh bomb victims have vowed to take the British government to court after branding its decision to rule out a public inquiry into the attack as a feeble bid to hide from the truth.

Relatives made the defiant pledge to take judicial review proceedings after Northern secretary Theresa Villiers said she did not believe there were sufficient grounds to justify a state-commissioned independent probe into the 1998 Real IRA bombing.

The dissident republican attack, which killed 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, and injured more than 200, was one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles and inflicted the greatest loss of life in a single terrorist incident.