Medical evidence may halt Omagh retrial

Medical reports claiming the only man jailed in connection with the Omagh bomb massacre suffers brain damage will be accepted as evidence in a legal bid to halt his retrial, it was announced today.

Colm Murphy, 53, is trying to thwart attempts to bring him before the courts again on conspiracy charges linked to the 1998 blast in Northern Ireland which killed 29 people, including a mother pregnant with twins.