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  • Hoey found not guilty in Omagh bombing case

    16:24 A man accused of murdering 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bombing has been found not guilty today. Sean Hoey (38), from Jonesborough, Co Armagh, had denied 56 charges, including the murders of 29 people, relating to Northern Ireland's worst terrorist atrocity. The bomb attack that devastated the Co Tyrone town was carried out by the Real IRA. Mr Hoey's trial at Belfast Crown Court lasted for 56 days and ended in January. Mr Justice Weir delivered his verdict today before relatives of those killed in the August 1998 attack.
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