The chief constable has said he is frustrated that no one has been convicted of the Omagh bombing.
Sir Hugh Orde was speaking on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Real IRA attack in which 29 people died.
He said it is highly unlikely that anyone will ever be convicted of the atrocity.
"Unless we get something new, it is highly unlikely that the families will ever get a successful judicial outcome in terms of a criminal trial."
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It was the worst atrocity of the troubles, but no-one has been convicted of the 29 murders in Omagh 10 years ago.
Michael Gallagher, who lost his son Aidan in the explosion, finds it difficult to accept that those responsible haven't been caught.
"It's been an unbelievable catalogue of failures," is how he put it.
"There was a feeling that those responsible were going to be caught very shortly. I never thought I would be sitting talking about it 10 years after the event.
The police devoted huge resources to the investigation in its early stages and vowed that the killlers would be caught.
But the former Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan later published a damning critique of that investigation, accusing the police of letting down the victims and their families.
The only person charged directly with the 29 murders, south Armagh man Sean Hoey, was cleared of all charges last December.
His trial ended with the judge severely criticising the police, accusing two key prosecution witnesses of lying and labelling much of the evidence presented in court as useless
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7561781.stm
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If find it unbelievable that no one has been convicted, after 10 years of the worst single terrorist atrocity of the troubles. The victims families were told days after the bombing that the Police knew the names of the people who did it. Yet the police systematically failed at every point of the investigation. Contaminating evidence, failing to pick up evidence, using unreliable witnesses and labelling much of the evidence presented in court as useless.
Sir Hugh Orde was speaking on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Real IRA attack in which 29 people died.
He said it is highly unlikely that anyone will ever be convicted of the atrocity.
"Unless we get something new, it is highly unlikely that the families will ever get a successful judicial outcome in terms of a criminal trial."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7561732.stm
It was the worst atrocity of the troubles, but no-one has been convicted of the 29 murders in Omagh 10 years ago.
Michael Gallagher, who lost his son Aidan in the explosion, finds it difficult to accept that those responsible haven't been caught.
"It's been an unbelievable catalogue of failures," is how he put it.
"There was a feeling that those responsible were going to be caught very shortly. I never thought I would be sitting talking about it 10 years after the event.
The police devoted huge resources to the investigation in its early stages and vowed that the killlers would be caught.
But the former Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan later published a damning critique of that investigation, accusing the police of letting down the victims and their families.
The only person charged directly with the 29 murders, south Armagh man Sean Hoey, was cleared of all charges last December.
His trial ended with the judge severely criticising the police, accusing two key prosecution witnesses of lying and labelling much of the evidence presented in court as useless
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7561781.stm
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If find it unbelievable that no one has been convicted, after 10 years of the worst single terrorist atrocity of the troubles. The victims families were told days after the bombing that the Police knew the names of the people who did it. Yet the police systematically failed at every point of the investigation. Contaminating evidence, failing to pick up evidence, using unreliable witnesses and labelling much of the evidence presented in court as useless.