'Terror plot detonator changed after expert examination'

A detonator used in a terrorist plot underwent unexplained changes after it was first examined, the Omagh bomb trial heard today.

As lawyers representing Sean Hoey, 37, the man accused of murdering 29 people in the atrocity, prepared to open their case, they recalled a forensic scientist who studied the device found after a separate attack blamed on the south Armagh electrician.