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Seamus Daly arrives at Omagh court in County Tyrone. Photograph: Peter Morrison/PA
The case against the only remaining suspect charged with the Omagh bombing, in which 29 people were killed, has collapsed, prompting families of the victims to claim that their loved ones will never get justice.
Northern Ireland’s Public Prosecution Service has dropped 29 murder charges against Seamus Daly in relation to the single biggest act of mass murder of the Ulster Troubles.
A PPS lawyer officially withdrew the prosecution during a routine magistrates court hearing at Ballymena courthouse, County Antrim, on Tuesday morning.
He had appeared in court in Omagh last week to face all the charges related to the atrocity.
One of the 29 victims of the bombing was a pregnant woman whose twins were almost full term when she died after a 500lb bomb exploded in the centre of the town on a busy Saturday.
As well as facing 29 murder charges, Daly had been accused of causing the explosion in the County Tyrone market town in August 1998 and possessing the bomb. He also faced charges relating to a Real IRA bomb plot in Lisburn in April of that year.
Daly, originally from the Irish Republic, was arrested in South Armagh in 2014 in connection with the Real IRA bombing at Omagh. Since his arrest, Daly has consistently denied any involvement in the atrocity.
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