Video link plea for Omagh witness

FBI spy David Rupert’s evidence in the landmark civil action against five men suspected of the Omagh bombing should be given from America in order to protect his life, a court heard today.

With the trial of the alleged terrorists behind the atrocity which claimed 29 lives provisionally fixed for January next year, lawyers for the victims’ families urged a High Court judge to allow the key witness to testify using a video link.