Omgh bomb victim’s sister believes that the inquiry will lead to ‘thin truth’

The sister of a teenager killed in Omgh bombing believes that the conclusion of the investigation would bring “a very thin version of the truth”.

Clair Hayes, whose brother Alan Redford, was killed in a bomb at the age of 16, said she was suspicious of the result of the investigation, what she believes that she lacks transparency from government bodies.

The attack by Real Ira in 1998 was the biggest single torture of troubles in Northern Ireland, killing 29 people.

Ms. Hayes will address the investigation on Wednesday.

Talk to BBC’s Good Morning Ulster On Wednesday, Ms. Hayes described her brother Alan as “the most innocent, pure, compassionate man”.

“It hurts me so much that he died alone on the road in such a barbaric way,” he said.

Ms. Hayes believes that families would find a conclusion whether the bomb could have been stopped, but suspected that the complete truth would emerge.

“There are lots of reductions that can be done, Mi5 or informants or whoever likes there are too much protection,” he continued.

“When the Irish government is not participating in it, it is not a complete investigation, so there is already a defect for me.

“We need full transparency from the southern government.”

He said that while the Irish government has said that it is “they are not forced to do so and for me, for Allen, it’s not something I wanted”.

“I wanted it to be completely strong and completely transparent for it, so we know everything completely.”

TaCich (Irish Prime Minister) Michael Martin said on Tuesday that he has “very clear” that the Irish government should cooperate fully with investigation.

Tánaiste (Deputy Prime Minister) Simon Harris said that the Irish government would not have not received “.

He said that “the range of assistance for an inquiry installed under the UK law, it means to do some work to get details of the mechanism of cooperation, but we are actively engaged in this work”.

On Tuesday, an investigation with his president Lord Turnbull said that he was “surprised at the level of grief” on the bereaved families and the remaining people.

The names of those killed in the attack were read and a one -minute silence was seen in the beginning session.

Heard tribute in interrogation one day Two Spanish victims of bombing.

Senior investigation advocate Paul Greeny KC said that the statement and personal testimony were an important initial point in the investigation.

Earlier, Michael Galagher, who lost his 21 -year -old son Aden in the attack, stated that he was “grateful that the afflicted center and in front and he would be given a voice”.

“I think it is important that the world knows the type of lost people in Omgh that day,” he said.

The inquiry tries to determine what the bombing is The UK could be stopped by the state authorities.

This phase of investigation at the Strula Arts Center in Omagh will run for four weeks and is also listening to the survivors and listening to the first respondents.

The Irish government has promised to cooperate with interrogation-the people started an attack from across the border.

Dublin first indicated that there was no new evidence for a separate public investigation in the Republic of Ireland.

The Omgh bomb exploded at the city center on 15 August 1998 on Saturday afternoon.

The attack took place four months after signing the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

RIRA – An dissatisfied Republican paramilitary group – disagreed with the provisional IRA’s decision to call a ceasefire ahead of the talks and continued to plant car bombs in towns across North Ireland.

But the Omgh bomb was Reera’s most deadly attack till now.

Nine children, including a child, were among the dead.

More than 200 others were injured, some of whom survived life -changing injuries.

Three days after the 1998 attack, the real IRA issued a statement claiming responsibility for the explosion.

It apologized to the “civilian” victims and said that its goals were commercial.

Nearly 27 years later, no one has been convicted by a criminal court for committing murders.