Omagh families ‘woefully let down’ by police, father of victim tells inquiry

Twenty-nine people, including a woman pregnant with twins, were killed at Omagh in August 1998 (Paul McErlane/PA)

The families of those bereaved in the Omagh bombing were “woefully let down” by a poor police investigation, the father of a boy killed in the explosion has said.

Victor Barker told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that his son James’s life had been taken away from him in the most “evil and barbaric fashion”.