Phone, forensic evidence for Omagh bombing case

The prosecution case against a high-profile republican charged with murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing is based on phone, forensic and witness evidence, a court has heard.

A detective said the decision to charge Seamus Daly, aged 43, who has previously been successfully sued over the Real IRA outrage, had been taken in consultation with the “highest level” of the North’s Public Prosecution Service after reviewing a range of evidence allegedly linking the Co Monaghan bricklayer and publican with the August 1998 attack.

Appearing at Dungannon Magistrates’ Court, Daly, originally from Cullaville, Co Monaghan, but now residing in Jonesborough, Co Armagh, was remanded in custody after deputy district judge Paul Conway refused a bail application.