Omagh Bomber acquitted - FRU double agent who warned Special Branch ignored

Sean Hoey, now 38 an unemployed electrician from Jonesborough, south Armagh,was today cleared of the murder of 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bombing, the worst atrocity in more than three decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.The the trial concluded on January 17 this year and Judge Weir who heard the case without a jury has taken 11 months to reach his verdict.

Judge Weir criticised the process of bagging, labelling and recording of exhibits and hit out at the "slapdash approach" and "cavalier disregard" the police and some forensic experts had for the integrity of forensic items.

Judge Weir said two police officers had told untruths in a deliberate attempt to bolster their statements and said there had been a calculated deception that made it impossible for him to accept their evidence.

Only one person, Hoey's uncle Colm Murphy a County Louth builder and publican, has ever been convicted of involvement in the blast, but his conviction was overturned in January 2005 after he had spent three years in jail - a retrial ordered by the Court of Criminal Appeal, on the grounds that two Gardaí had falsified interview notes and he now faces a re-trial. This may be delayed or forgotten about as his lawyers claime he is lawyers claiming he is suffering from short-term memory loss as a result of a car accident.

In 2003, Michael McKevitt, understood to be the leader of the Real IRA, was jailed by a Dublin court for 20 years for "directing terrorism", although the trial judge was explicit that the charges were unrelated to the Omagh bombing.

The car bomb attack on August 15 1998, killed Protestants and Catholics and left 220 wounded, many with horrific injuries. The 500 lb bomb was placed in car stolen in County Monaghan (Eire) a week before. It had its Republic of Ireland number plates replaced with Northern Ireland plates and was parked outside a clothes shop on Omagh's Market Street, less than 30 minutes after the first warning was sent to local media. (See pic : click to enlarge)

Three different warnings were received by news organisations in the province half an hour before the bomb detonated.

Discrepancies over the location of the bomb in those calls simply added to the confusion - resulting in Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) officers leading people towards the bomb, rather than away from it.

The bombing was carried out by the Real IRA, which opposed the Good Friday agreement that had been signed in April.In July 2001 a double agent using the pseudonym Kevin Fulton alleges he told his Special Branch handlers days in advance of the Omagh attack by the Real IRA.

Kevin Fulton was an ex Britsh soldier , a Catholic from Newry , who was given false discharge papers from his regiment and told by the shadowy military intelligence agency, the Force Research Unit (FRU), to infiltrate the IRA. As part of long- running investigations by the Sunday Herald into Ulster's Dirty War, Fulton has already claimed he warned RUC Special Branch that the Omagh bombing was being planned at least 48 hours before the Real IRA placed the bomb. *See Brig. Gordon Kerr

Hoey, who was already in jail on remand for other alleged offences, was charged with the murders and multiple other crimes in May 2005. See Lord Patel's post Omagh bombing: man faces murder charges:6.14PM, Wed May 4 2005

The trial eventually began in September 2006. Hoey pleaded not guilty to 58 offences,(2 were dropped). Today his mother Ritea, said outside the court : "I want the world to know that my son Sean Hoey is innocent."

The early proceedings were dogged by controversy as it emerged that some witness statements had been lost and others altered. During the 56-day trial, prosecutors tried to tie Hoey to the Omagh bombing and other explosions by using DNA evidence specifically a type called low copy DNA. But his lawyers challenged the evidence, claiming it was unreliable.

Hoey's defence team repeatedly argued that the police had tampered with evidence and that exhibits had been wrongly labelled. They said there had been a police 'conspiracy' to 'bury' evidence. They also challenged the integrity of some of the police and forensic witnesses.

In this much awaited verdict Judge Weir quoted a judgment by the Court of Appeal, which said justice demanded " proper evidence and not merely evidence which might be true to a considerable extent, probably is true, but which was so convincing in truth and manifestly reliable that it reached the standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt."

He went on to say : “The evidence against the accused in this case did not reach that immutable standard. Accordingly, I find Mr Hoey not guilty on each of the remaining counts of the indictment.”

So all the FRU and their state paid assassins can sleep a little more comfortably as their secrets don't surface in a court .. again.

The Omagh Bomb : "We are not seeking vengence we are seeking justice." Parents sue bombers - after 10 years Police bungling

Almost unreported in England, the civil action against 5 men by Omagh relatives who they claim were were behind the 1998 bombing, starts today in the High Court in Belfast and is scheduled to last 4 weeks. No-one can be jailed as a result of the action, but the families hope it will finally uncover the truth about what happened.

The August 15th 1998 attack left 29 people dead, including a woman who was pregnant with twins, and some 250 people were injured.

Those being sued are Michael McKevitt, Seamus Daly, Liam Campbell, Colm Murphy and Seamus McKenna.

Sean Hoey, an electrician from Jonesborough, south Armagh, was cleared of involvement in the Omagh bombing last December, principally because the Police screwed up the evidence. At the time Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde was very relieved to say that it was now unlikely that anyone would ever be convicted, unless one of those involved makes a confession. See Thursday, December 20, 2007 Omagh Bomber acquitted - FRU double agent who warned Special Branch ignored about lying police etc.,

McKevitt, 58, is awaiting judgement in an appeal against a conviction in the Irish Republic for directing terrorism.

He has won a fight for full legal aid to defend the multi-million pound compensation case.

Seamus Daly, of Culloville, Castleblayney, Co Monaghan, was sentenced to three years after being found guilty of membership of an illegal organisation.

Liam Campbell, 43, is in Portlaoise Prison in the Republic of Ireland on terrorism charges unconnected to Omagh.

Colm Murphy, 56, was sentenced to 14 years in prison in January 2002 for conspiracy to cause the Omagh explosion, but the conviction was overturned on appeal and he is awaiting a retrial.

All five are denying any involvement.

London solicitor, Jason McCue, has been hired by the families with senior counsel Lord Brennan QC representing the families.

Only last week Chief Justice John Murray ruled that there was "nothing that prevents" material from the men's trials from being furnished to the plaintiffs.

It is said Legal history will be made when the judge, Mr Justice Morgan, travels to Dublin for two weeks to hear evidence from 24 Irish Garda officers whom the families believe have valuable information about what happened. How much co-operation the garda officers will be prepared to give is unclear.

Kevin Fulton, a double agent run by the British Govenrment who infiltrated both the Provisional and later the Real IRA will (it is said) give evidence.

He claims to have delivered warnings to the RUC that an attack was about to take place at Omagh, but says the warning was ignored.

Aiden Gallagher then aged 21, the son of campaigner Michael Gallagher was killed in the bombing. His father os quoted : "It has been a long and difficult seven years and there have been many struggles and hurdles. We haven't had any reassurance from the Gardai that officers will give evidence. We have concerns about the Irish government dragging their heels But nothing can take away from the fact that it is a magnificent achievement that we have finally got to court. "

"We are not seeking vengence we are seeking justice."

None of the five men being sued will attend Belfast High Court to give evidence or face cross-examination.

Sir Ronald Flanagan, GBE, QPM, Home Office Chief Inspector of Constabulary for the United Kingdom and the Omagh atrocity

Sir Ronald Flanagan, GBE, QPM, is the Home Office Chief Inspector of Constabulary for the United Kingdom excluding Scotland. Flanagan was previously the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland since its creation in 2001 to 2002, and had been Chief Constable of its predecessor, the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) until 2001.

On Saturday 15 August 1998 a terrorist bomb exploded in Omagh killing 29 people and two unborn children. It was the worst single terrorist incident since the start of “The Troubles” in 1969.

The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) immediately established an Omagh Bomb Investigation Team. The Chief Constable Sir Ronnie Flanagan gave a strong commitment to see that “no stone would be left unturned until we bring these people to justice”.

Nuala O'Loan the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland made a statement on her investigation of matters relating to the Omagh Bomb on August 15, 1998


Para 18 Page 10 :

The Chief Constable welcomed the Police Ombudsman’s investigation and assured it full co-operation. During the course of this investigation, it is of considerable concern that some critical information was not provided in the initial disclosures that were made to the Police Ombudsman’s Investigators.

At senior management level the response to this enquiry has been defensive and at times unco-operative.

Special Branch and the Chief Constable were reluctant to grant access to their material to Police Ombudsman’s Investigators and failed to inform those Investigators of a computer system where intelligence, vital to the investigation, was held.

There was a failure to reveal intelligence, which led to a request on 21 September 2001 fordirect access to intelligence systems in order that the Police Ombudsman could have confidence that all relevant material was made available to Police Ombudsman’s Investigators.

A hiatus in the investigation then occurred while the Chief Constable then considered this request.The Chief Constable did not agree to this request until 9 October 2001 and access was not achieved until 17 October 2001 when computers were made available for Police Ombudsman’s Investigators.

Unbelievably the lying fucker, Sir Ronald Flanagan, GBE, QPM, is STILL the Home Office Chief Inspector of Constabulary for the United Kingdom .

Anybody in public life who fails to call for his immediate removal from office is colluding in the cover up of the true authors of the Omagh atrocity.

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Omagh bombing: man faces murder charges:6.14PM, Wed May 4 2005

Sean Gerard Hoey, 35 (DOB August 13, 1969 )
an electrician from, Molly Road, Jonesborough, South Armagh man is to be charged with murdering the 29 people who died in the Omagh bombing. The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in Belfast has given police the go-ahead after a mammoth investigation which involved a review of all the forensic evidence by an international panel of scientists from Toronto, New York and Switzerland.

Hoey is already in custody on a series of terrorist charges and membership of the Real IRA, the dissident republican group which bombed Omagh killed 29 people including unborn twins and injured 300 in August 1998. Hoey who is being held at Maghaberry Prison, near Lisburn, Co Antrim is due to appear at a remand hearing at Craigavon, Co Armagh on May 19. He is the FIRST person to be charged for the offence in Northern Ireland. (Amazing what an election can do to the speed of justice)

Hoey is also accused of explosives charges and of possessing timer units allegedly linked to several mortar, car and roadside bombs in the months before Omagh.

Hoey who is being held at Maghaberry Prison, near Lisburn, Co Antrim is due to appear at a remand hearing at Craigavon, Co Armagh on May 19 2005.

At last the state moves against terrorism after 7 years - luckily they only used bombs and not osmium tetroxide or ricin... of course in July 2001 a double agent using the pseudonym Kevin Fulton alleges he told his Special Branch handlers days in advance of the Omagh attack that the Real IRA was preparing a bomb. It is claimed Special Branch failed to pass this information on.

More on Fulton in Guardian >>>>

God´s curse on you Britannia for this cruel deed you´ve done/ But god will have his final say when your judgement day it comes

On the day that the NI election results become finally available, Nuala O'Loan the NI Police Ombudsman has announced an enquiry ( interviews have already started) into claims of collusion between members of the IRA and the security forces who have been said to be agents for Special Branch and other state agencies MI5 /6/7/8 Dame Pauline Neville Jones Fan Club.

Initially she will examine 6 incidents over a 20 year period. (Pics Aidan McAnespie 21 (1988) Mary Travers 22 (1984)both killed by the British Government - God's curse on you Britannia)

Alfredo Scappaticci

Four years ago Belfast man Freddie Scappaticci, was unmasked as an IRA informer the dramatically codenamed Stakeknife and was also head of the IRA's notorious internal security unit, which interrogated and killed those it decided were informers, often after torture. He denies he was Stakeknife and anything to do with any informing, killing etc.,

Three IRA members were shot dead by the unit in July 1992, and it is claimed they were killed to protect another more high-ranking agent.

Anthony McKernan

Anthony McKernan from the Markets area of Belfast was shot dead by the IRA in January 1988 and the IRA said at the time that he was an informer, an allegation that Mr McKernan's family has always deniedand they say their father was one of those murdered to cover for Scappaticci.

Mr McKernan's daughter, Sharon Murtagh, has recently said on the popular Nolan TV show that the family believed there was collusion in his killing.

"It would have been in the British interest to take my father out because my father was a member of the IRA.

"He done jail, he was on the run, he was an alleged bomb maker although he was never charged with anything in connection with explosions.

"Our theory is that it would be in their interests to take him out. But we also feel that my father was under Freddie Scappaticci and that they both colluded together to take him out."

It's not everayday that the Brtish State is accused on TV of having colluded in the murder of the a named individual, or by their surviving family ...the equivalent perhaps would be Dr David Kelly's daughter claiming MI6 had her dad killed ... which is (of course) a preposterous suggestion.

The killing of Mary Travers

In another development a former magistrate Tom Travers has caused questions to be asked of the Ombudsman's office when a whistle-blowing former Special Branch officer was arrested by the Police Ombudsman amid allegations of a cover-up in the murder of his daughter Mary in 1984.. He was, with his daughter (then 22) leaving Mass at St Brigid’s Church in the Malone area of Belfast in April 1984 when an IRA gang opened fire on them, he was injured and his daughter killed in front of him.

The officer who had befriended and helped the Travers family - it is believed he told them that he witnessed a cover-up of the killing. The retired officer said another Special Branch officer allowed a member of the IRA, also a police agent, to destroy vital evidence including the murder weapon. The now retired officer was arrested yesterday at 7am, when Ombudsman staff and PSNI officers raided his home in north Down.

They spent several hours searching his home before arresting him for alleged 'neglect of duty in 1984'.

2 arrested for 1981 shooting

In another curious election time action, Police arrested Independent Republican candidate Gerry McGeough (former hunger striker and vehement pro-life activist) was arrested as he left the Omagh count centre last night. Mr McGeough, a fringe Sinn Fein defector and vocal critic of the party, polled 814 votes in Fermanagh.

The PSNI said the operation was part of an investigation into "serious terrorist crime" which is believed to be the assult in 1981 on Sammy Brush, (now a DUP councillor) in Ballygawley, was shot several times in the attack - and was himself at the count in Omagh.

Simultaneously 44-year-old Vincent McAnespie , husband of Sinn Fein councillor Brenda McAnespie was arrested in Aughnacloy. His brother Aidan McAnespie was shot dead by security forces at a checkpoint on 21 February 1988.Charges were initially brought against a soldier for manslaughter but were dropped prior to prosecution. McAnespie's family allege a cover-up by the British state.

The incident was investigated by both the RUC and the Gardai with no evidence of anything other than an accidental discharge being the cause of death - this was raised by Denis Canavan in the House of Commons with the then NI Secretary Tom King on Thursday 20 July 1989. who maintained that ...

"no evidence was forthcoming, on either side of the border, that the incident was anything other than an accident".

Which should the Ombudsman find otherwise, might cause the shifty shit some trouble to his conscience .... no.no it won't.

Just another day in the killing fields of Ulster, really.

Twas on a Sunday evening the sun was in the sky
As he walked his way to the Gaelic pitch never thinking he was going to die
But as he crossed the checkpoint the sound of gunfire came
The news spread through the border town Aidan McAnespie was slain
For years he was harassed by the forces of the crown
As he went to his work every day he left his native town
The soldiers swore they´d get him the reason no one can say
And sure enough they murdered him in cold blood that sunny day

Oh why did you do it?
Have you not the guts to say
You say it was an accident or even a ricochet
But like Loughgall and Gibraltar you´re lies are well renowned
You murdered Aidan McAnespie on his way to the Gaelic ground

The people heard the gunfire they came from miles around
They saw that your man lying there dying on the ground
His flow of life was ebbing fast and people they tried their best
That bullet wound it was far to deep it went right through his chest

Oh why did you do it?
Have you not the guts to say
You say it was an accident or even a ricochet
But like Loughgall and Gibraltar you´re lies are well renowned
You murdered Aidan McAnespie on his way to the Gaelic ground

Aidans life had ended it was time for judgement day
The soldier he jumped down from the tower and the coward he slipped away
God´s curse on you Britannia for this cruel deed you´ve done
But god will have his final say when your judgement day it comes

Oh why did you do it?
Have you not the guts to say
You say it was an accident or even a ricochet
But like Loughgall and Gibraltar you´re lies are well renowned
You murdered Aidan McAnespie on his way to the Gaelic ground

To say it was an accident is the greatest crime of all
To his heart-broken family the worst had `er befalled
A cross it marks the lonely spot where Aidan was gunned down
As he strolled on that sunny evening on his way to the Gaelic ground

Oh why did you do it?
Have you not the guts to say
You say it was an accident or even a ricochet
But like Loughgall and Gibraltar you´re lies are well renowned
You murdered Aidan McAnespie on his way to the Gaelic ground

PC Power

Apparently Gordon Brown is pissing away more taxpayers money with the energy that The Earl of Bamford spent the family fortune on maintaining the Calili cartel in business. The Curiously titled National Policing Improvement Agency say so anyway. 10,000 hand held computers for £50mn - certainly didn't fall off the back of a lorry.

Apparently emboldened by HM Inspector of Constabulary the dumb Ronnie Flanagan some time Chief Constable of Ulster whose staff, lied in court, supplied, money, arms, explosives to paid killers and drug dealers and whose officers handing of evidence at the time of the Omagh bombing was so recently excoriated in court by a judge ......

Emboldend by this dumbfuck, over £50Mn is being spent on providing PC's with PC's which Gordon had mentioned at last year's Labour Party Conference (see Spy Blog).

Richard Earland, Chief Information Officer at the NPIA said,

"Officers who have access to databases, such as the Police National Computer, command and control and intelligence systems while out on patrol, will spend less time returning to the station and more time on the frontline - therefore increasing visibility and reassuring the public. This builds on previous work carried out on a small scale and will streamline access to information at the point of operational decision making."

Ho.Ho.Ho.

Operational Details are scarce but there must evidently be two uses for remote computer terminals / PDA's / Data capture terminals.

1. Access to online databases.

Access to the Police National Computer, DVLC , etc is and has been available for years / decdes by contacting local Police HQ and requesting the information using radio / mobile phone. This ensures that data access is secure , although of course such access has been widely abused for years. Lord Patel has through the use of ex policemen who have become private dicks obtained information for payment ... as evidently does the Press, crooks Unlce Tom Cobbleigh and All. This is not limited to Home Office employees Lord Patel was provided regularly by VAT staff with competitor's VAT payment / Turnover information.

To provide remote access leaves the terminals open to theft, makes access codes more insecure... a friend of Toni Fabuloso , a Police lady was stopped recently by a Lancashire Police car in Burnley, equipped with PC access to the DVLC. It was evident that they were not trained / incapable of using the equipment and were shown by Toni's friend, in front of whom they discussed access codes. It eventually dawned on them that they were in the presence of a Police officer who regularly used the PNC daily for their job.

The Police lady had been stopped because the system showed that she had no insurance for her car. Such are the benefits of providing Plod in his Panda with access to the PNC.

There is no argument whatever for extending access to the nation's secure databases from remote mobile locations. Plod can continue to call in now, as he has done for many years.

2. Data collection

Lord Patel spent over 20 years developing shop floor data collection in manufacturing - which essentially is no different to Plod collecting data for , say, stops under the terrorism Act Section 40. Such a task is deceptively simple ..ask Mr Mc Nulty the Home Office Minister.

A little history is due here. First systems, used in house wall mounted untis with a hard wired serial RS232 interface - Source terminals made by two graduates from Birmingham. Built like brick built outhouse, dust proofed, waterproof, membrane keyboard with programmable keys, 20 inputs and outputs, 2 line 14 character LCD display. Brilliant bit of kit.

Then the first mobile data collector was the original Psion unit, this was soon discarded because they couldn't get an RS232 interface to work quickly enough.

After that the Oyster (same folks who brought you the Oyster card) hand held with a 4 line 32 character LCD screen, tiny QWERTY keyboard and inputs for bar code reader wand. Ruggedised and bright yellow so it was (supposedly difficult to lose / mislay). This came with a cut down basic and it's own MDSOS variant operating system.

Then when Compaq produced the first wireless PDA's , superseded by a never ending series of Hewlett Packard products it became almost impossible to maintain development as operating system improvements , memory capacity, Wi-Fi speeds increased along with security, and other data capture features became available.

If the idea of speeding up Plod's paper work by 99 minutes a day is possible, it will require a massive effort and whoever does it can benefit from many, many , man years, a lot of dosh and patient customers.

1. Battery life is critical. Consideration of this is fundamental to choice of equipment.
2. The elements collected must be minimised.
3. Data entry must wherever possible be automated - eg use of 2D or 3 D barcodes , automatic character recognition etc.,
4. Text entry from a keyboard must be eliminated. In bad light, or with sunshine, pissing rain, wind and maybe wearing gloves nobody can accurately use a hand held device for entering free text - especially when dealing with a crime suspect.
5. The forms Plod fills in were never designed for such procedures and will require standardising and streamlining - which will never happen.
6. Experience shows that the overhead of error checking in data entry routines is always understated (and misunderstood) - for example if a simple Y/N response is required to a question, the chances of hitting M instead of N are about 50%.

If you can imagine the chances of getting these simple design principles across to 44 Police forces, plus other bodies involved , the design / IT teams involved ... and arriving at a single agreed method of remote, mobile data capture ..

However the experience, wisdom and knowledge of Lord Patel is available to make the job easier.

Meanwhile Plod will piss away Gordon's and the taxpayer's money. See more at Spy Blog Police Receive £50 Million For 10,000 Hand Held Computers i.e. £5,000 each - are they gold plated ?

" a campaign of State Terrorism" - McGuinness

On Wednesday, a Sinn Fein delegation led by Martin McGuinness MP held talks with the Dermot Ahern TD Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs in Dundalk.

After the meeting, Mr McGuinness in remarks not widely reported said ,

"Collusion was a British policy, it was about upholding the Union [with Britain] and its result was a campaign of State terrorism in Ireland."....the report by the Police Ombudsman was he said "the beginning of the process to uncover the full extent of collusion and the involvement of the most senior political figures in the British system in it."

He went on to refer to a recent press report (?) quoting former RUC/PSNI Assistant Chief Constable Raymond White, who has apparently admitted that British Ministers and senior officials were "regularly briefed"on undercover operations and that he personally had briefed former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

Those with medium term memory will remember he was named in Affadavits prepared by Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan and Assistant Chief Constable Sam Kincaid lodged at the High Court in Belfast which criticised White and Chief Constable Flanagan over the report into the Omagh bombing.(Ulster TV Wednesday 2 /05/2002 cached only )

"This goes right to the very top .... "I impressed upon the Irish government today that a passive role on this issue is no longer an option for them. They must join with Sinn Fein and the families of those killed and injured through this British policy in demanding that the British government come clean."

Making a point which must have been embarassing to the wily Ahern , McGuiness put him on an unwelcome spot ;

"They (The Irish Gubment) must rigorously pursue those instances where the collusion policy directed from Whitehall resulted in attacks in the 26 counties. They must join with us in demanding that any serving members of the PSNI involved in this activity are drummed out of policing."

Meanwhile SDLP leader Mark Durkan used parliamentary privilege at to name three former heads of RUC/PSNI Special Branch Chris Albiston, Ray White and Freddy Hall,who are believed to have refused to cooperate with the police ombudsman's investigation into its murderous links to the UVF in north Belfast. The first two named have however not hesistated to publicly criticise the Ombudsman's report.

Mark Durkan added that collusion "was a fact, not a myth" and demanded former RUC/PSNI chief constable Ronnie Flanagan resign as 'Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary', a supervisory role over all British Crown police forces, including the PSNI.

"Can Ronnie Flanagan, who presided over a culture of 'anything goes but nobody knows', be credible as the chief inspector of constabularies, and will the prime minister now rethink plans to install MI5 as continuity special branch in Northern Ireland beyond the reach of key
powers of the Police Ombudsman?"

Tony Blair replied that whilst the Gubment regretted the state killings, it was important to "make sure that such a thing can never happen again and that obviously, as we are doing, we deal with those responsible".

No details have yet emerged as to what actions, if any, are to be taken against those involved in the conspiracy. The Policing Board met on 24th January with Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde and had a briefing from Nuala O`Loan, the Police Ombudsman - they have agreed (at their private meeting) to consider any changes that the PSNI have made in response in six months.

The ten documented and principal assassinations ( which involved the killing of both Republican and Protestant supporters) in the report from Nuala O`Loan are briefly;

RAYMOND McCORD JNR:

The 22-year-old Protestant former RAF member was found beaten to death at Ballyduff quarry N Belfast on November 9th 1997. Mrs O'Loan's report states that Haddock ordered
Mr McCord jnr to be killed following a dispute over drugs.

One suspect in the killing is referred to in the report as "Man D", a prisoner on leave from Long Kesh prison. However, there was a failure to examine the suspect's clothing at the prison and a vital forensic opportunity was lost.

Haddock and others were arrested and questioned about the killing but were released without charge. The report details destruction of exhibits, including a car thought to have been used in the McCord killing.


PETER McTASNEY:

The 26-year-old Catholic voluntary worker was shot dead at his home in the Bawnmore area of north Belfast on February 24th 1991.

Haddock was arrested and questioned 19 times by his RUC "handlers". Mrs O'Loan reports that they "babysat" him through interviews to ensure he did not incriminate himself. She further reports that the interview notes did not reflect the interview and that he was released without
charge. 2 men were subsequently convicted, but Special Branch never revealed the involvement of a police informant.


SHARON McKENNA:
Ms McKenna was a 27-year-old Catholic taxi driver, was shot dead on January 17th, 1993 while visiting a Protestant pensioner at his N Belfast home.

Two men called to the door and forced their way in when the pensioner opened it. They demanded the keys to Ms McKenna's car and, as she turned to lift them from the fireplace, they shot her in the back.

In interviews with Mrs O'Loan's investigators, senior RUC officers said Haddock had told them he was one of the gunmen. This is supported by "high grade" information.

Haddock was arrested on the 19th (he saw his handlers the following day) and interviewed 37 times over the course of six days, on some occasions by his "handler".

The report states that another officer present claimed he felt like "a gooseberry" in that he knew his RUC colleague was interviewing his own "source" and that nothing of any value would emerge from the questioning.

No one has been charged with the murder and Haddock's monthly informant's pay was increased from £100 to £160, despite the fact that he remained the main suspect.


SEAN McPARLAND:

The 55-year-old Catholic father of four was shot dead in N Belfast on February 25th, 1994 as he babysat his grandchildren in his daughter's house. He died the following week from his wounds.

Mrs O'Loan reports that other evidence, seen by her investigators, shows another informant carried out the killing and that Haddock was also involved.


GARY CONVIE AND EAMON FOX:

Mr Convie, a 24-year-old Catholic father of one, and Mr Fox, a 44-year-old married Catholic father of six, were shot dead while eating lunch at a building site in the Tiger Bay area of N Belfast.

Haddock was suspected of the murders and arrested. Mrs O'Loan reports that the gunman was said to have had a "goatee" beard at the time of the attack. Haddock too had a "goatee" beard, but was given time to shave it off while in custody.

A former British soldier was later convicted of the killings. He had been dismissed from the Royal Corps of Signals.


GERARD BRADY:

Mr Brady was a 27-year-old Catholic father of two, part time taxi driver and plumber. He was shot dead by 2 men who were passengers in his car on June 17th 1994.

Mrs O'Loan's investigators found that the RUC had intelligence linking Haddock and another RUC agent to the killing. They state also that ballistic tests on the gun used had established a link to Haddock and to other informants.


JOHN HARBINSON:

Mr Harbinson, a Protestant died after he was handcuffed and beaten to death by a UVF gang based in the Mount Vernon estate in north Belfast on May 18th 1997.

Mrs O'Loan reports that RUC special branch had a "significant amount of high grade intelligence" about the four main suspects for the murder, including Haddock, but did not pass on this information to the police officers investigating the murder.

THOMAS SHEPPARD AND THOMAS ENGLISH:
Mr Sheppard was a 41-year-old UVF member who was shot dead in a pub in the Balee area of Ballymena, on March 21st, 1996. Mr English, killed on October 31st, 2000, was a prominent loyalist in N Belfast who was shot dead as part of a loyalist feud. (i.e during the time a New Labour Gubment was in power)

Mrs O'Loan's report states that investigators have seen information which links Haddock to the murders of both men.

Whilst the Gubment would like this to go away - it won't. Perhaps they should draft in Desmond Tutu and set up a Reconciliation Commission. There are sufficient dead bodies and grieving families to justify one - when Martin McGuiness and his fellow killers can provide the details of their "campaign of anti-State terrorism".

Waste disposers convicted and assets recovery agreed - wasted resources ?

On the 9th May 2006 at Omagh Crown Court, of David Edwin Allingham aged 63 years, and his wife Freda Elizabeth Allingham aged 60 years, of Kilcoo Road, Garrison, Enniskillen were convicted of offences detected by Environment and Heritage Service (EHS) officers during an inspection of land belonging to the defendants in the townland of Slattinagh, Garrison, Co Fermanagh, on 4 December 2003.

The site inspected was on land immediately overlooked by the Allingham home. At the site the EHS officers excavated several holes and these were found to contain biodegradable mixed municipal and medical waste which was evidently identified as being of Southern Irish origin.

On 20 June 2006, David was sentence to a total of 9 months imprisonment for these offences, his wife Freda was sentenced to a total of 4 months imprisonment suspended 2 years. A full confiscation hearing for the seizure of assets was held at Londonderry Crown Court on 24 and 25 September 2007, with judgement being reserved until yesterday.

This resulted in granting two Confiscation Orders in the total sum of £80,868 in respect of a Garrison farmer and his wife, who were both convicted on two counts of keeping and disposing of illegal waste.(offences contrary to Article 4(1)(c) and Article 4 (6) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, that on 4/12/03 in the County Court Division of Fermanagh and Tyrone, kept controlled waste in a manner likely to cause pollution of the environment or harm to human health; also Article 4 (1) (b) and Article 4 (6) of the Waste and Contaminated Land (Northern Ireland) Order 1997, that between 8/12/03 and 28/7/04 in the County Court Division of Fermanagh and Tyrone kept controlled waste in or on land otherwise than under or in accordance with a Waste Management Licence. )

His Honour Judge Babington held that Mr and Mrs Allingham had benefited from their particular criminal conduct in these offences to the sum of £48,520.80 and £32,347.20 respectively, and further made a Confiscation Order in the sum of £48,520.80 in respect of Mr Allingham and £32,347.20 in respect of Mrs Allingham, which the Court ordered they must pay by 27 May 2008 or serve a period of imprisonment of 16 months and 14 months respectively in default, at the conclusion of which sentences they will still owe the full confiscation amounts.

Naturally ARA Deputy Director Operations, Charlie Dickin is cock a hoop : "We are determined to recover the proceeds from all types of illegal activity, including keeping and disposal of illegal waste which, as well as damaging the environment, poses a risk to public health.

"The convictions, custodial and suspended sentences together with the recovery of criminal profit in this case send out a clear message to those involved in criminal activity that ARA together with its partners will do everything in its power to put them out of business.

"Collectively we are working hard to make sure that criminality and gangsterism doesn't pay."

"It is further evidence of the effectiveness of the multi-agency approach within the Organised Crime Task Force in tackling serious and organised crime in Northern Ireland."

Apparently the disparity in the cost of disposal of waste to Landfill in the Republic of Ireland, (averaging 220-350 Euros per tonne), and landfill charges in Northern Ireland which were typically £30-£50 per tonne, has apparently acted as an economic driver encouraging the illegal transport of waste from the Republic of Ireland into Northern Ireland, and into other parts of the United Kingdom.

According to EHS trade sources indicate that hauliers engaged in this illegal transport charge waste facilities in the Republic of Ireland 120 Euros per tonne to take this type of waste away. The waste facility therefore benefits in the region of between 100-230 Euros per tonne of waste, and the haulier splits the 120 Euros per tonne he has charged with the landowner whose land is used for illegal landfill. EHS further states that trade sources indicate the landowner receives between £5 and £10 (i.e. 7.50 to 15 Euros), per tonne of waste.

In August 2007 EHS issued a request by virtue of Article 24(2) of the Council Regulation (EC) No. 1013/2006 on Shipment of Waste Regulations to Dublin City Council, requiring them to ensure that the waste on Mr & Mrs Allingham's land is removed and taken back to the Republic of Ireland for disposal. To date EHS have received no formal response to this request; however indications are that the relevant ROI local authorities are likely to comply with it.

Whilst one wouldn't want to defend the evident but nonetheless criminal business enterprise of the elderly Mr and Mrs Allingham - in the light of the massive scale of gangsterism now rampant elsewhere in Northern Ireland their determined pursuit of this hapless couple - the loss of some £24 Mn from the Northern Bank the recent brutal murder of Paul Quinn involving IRA elements http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/article3205143.ece it does require some examination of the way the law is applied in Northern Ireland.

Surely the forces of Laura Norder in Northern Ireland can find better ways to dispose their forces ?

PS : The victorious Charlie Dickin, Deputy Director (Operations), is a seconded police officer from Avon and Somerset Constabulary who was appointed as a Deputy Director of ARA in April 2006, prior to which he set up and managed the Financial Investigation Centre of Excellence, also within the Agency.

With a background almost exclusively in criminal investigation, he was originally seconded to the Home Office in 2001 from his post as the Head of Fraud and Financial Crime to work with the Proceeds of Crime Bill team in the preparation and implementation of the legislation and as part of the development team for the Assets Recovery Agency.

He has had other successes - Wai Keung “Nicky” Cheung (see pic) an alleged drug trafficker’s property empire and luxury cars worth nearly £3m (€4.3m) were frozen in September .The Assets Recovery Agency (ARA) was granted an Interim Receiving Order at the city’s High Court after claiming Cheung amassed the portfolio through narcotics, fraud and tax evasions.

It is unlikely that Chueng was/is a member of the IRA or the UDA - it doesn't appear that he has been convicted of any offences.

Real IRA claim responsibility for drive-by executions of two British soldiers and promise wave of new attacks

IRA has not gone away, Adams warns ministers Independent -August 14th 1995

"Speaking at a large republican rally in Belfast city centre, Mr Adams accused the Government of intransigence and of strangling the opportunity for peace, a man called out: "Bring back the IRA." Mr Adams was applauded when he responded: "They haven't gone away, you know."

Quinn murder shows IRA has not gone away Belfast Newsletter 02 November 2007


The Collins, Donaldson, McCartney and Quinn (see post Paul Quinn, IRA fuel smuggler, murdered by IRA - DUP assist in cover up and Westminster remains silent.Business as usual in Northern Ireland ) cases highlight the fact that the IRA has not gone away and if the IRA did not authorise the murders they are aware of who the murderers are, or could it be a case of collusion between IRA activists and criminals.

There is an uncontrollable element within the Republican family that needs to be removed from society by the law of the land. If Sinn Fein is serious about peace, justice and truth let us see these four families receive justice, let us see the murderers behind bars for life and if they are IRA members out on licence let us see Sinn Fein actively support tough sentences including completion of original sentences for these thugs.

Letter from Councillor Ross M Hussey
UUP, Omagh

Northern Ireland(and to some extent Eire) is still in the grip of gangsters whose roots lie in their sectarian communities, well armedwith the remnants of their massive armouries, funded by drugs, prostitution, protection and crime.

Omagh - secret agent "Fulton" ......

...and the fuckwhits who run the terrists expect you to believe all this ...

3 pictures, from the left, Channel 4 of Terrists meeting at Teddington Service M1, middle BBC Panorama same pic, right the man in charge of terrism.

So we've banged up the wannabe terrist who couldn't remember what you mixed with ammonium nitrate to make a bomb. We've seen a picture of a 1/2 ton bomb go off (in the California hinterland for some reason) ,when you can see the results of the 1.5 ton bomb in Manchester - the authors of which, like the Omagh Bombers, are known to the secret services.

We've seen the hammy actors, with their hammy English scripts. You can if you wish visit the BBC website and hear hammy actors reading the hammy lines and what we are told is the scratchy original ... tell me. do the bro's speak in English or Urdu ? Probly only when discussing bombing Bluewater.

They are pictured scratching for scratch, yet Asian gangs, like Irish gangs have a massive income from , illegal drugs, VAT fraud (costing the State £400Mn a month, Counterfeit goods, clothing, DVD's, alcohol , credit card fraud, cigarette smuggling ... one thing Al Quaeda are not short of is money.

We will repeat ...

We now know that in Northern Ireland, terrorists who stole, mugged, horribly mutilated, killed, bombed, dealt in drugs were in the pay of and under the control of the state by and through it's secret services (FCO) and Police force(Home Office) and Army(MOD / FRU). (See Operation Ballast report and other reports). The current head of MI5 was one of those involved for many years in manipulating, funding, supplying, directing those terrorists, suppressing information, evidence, falsifying records and even ensuring the removal of armed military and police patrols to enable them to commit crimes. Quite where the State and it's employees fit in, in this case, it is not, at this stage possible to discern.

Essentially you cannot believe a single fucking word /image / statement / fact / figure - none of what appears tonight on TV, on the Radio in tomorrows papers that claims to supposedly re-create events about Crevice or 7/7 has been presented to the scrutiny of a court of law.

Just follow the links above to the Ballast report and others about the activities of state funded, organised terrist in Northern Ireland over many years .... nothing has changed.

What we do know is that over 50 people died on 7/7/05 and many, many were injured .. if you believe that the 4 "suicide bombers" were the authors, planners behind it, then you have been sold the pass.

What people like the Sphincter of the Yard, John Reid, Tony Blair keep telling us, is that another attack is imminent.... You'd better believe it..... This is what the Sphincter said last week in his lecture that so few heard and was so widely broadcast ...

"Nevertheless, we suffered the appalling attacks of July 2005, and the only sensible assumption is that we shall be attacked again." You can read all of his speech here.





Imran Kahn speaking outside the Old Bailey with Nabeel Hussain who was found not guilty. This is a correct transcript of the statement of the 5 accused found guilty which he read out on their behalf. It can be heard here

"In the name of Allah the merciful, the compassionate, we bear witness there is nothing worthy of worship except Allah, and Mohammed as his messenger.

This was a prosecution driven by the security services, able to hide behind a cloak of secrecy, and eager to obtain ever greater resources and power to encroach on individual rights.

There was no limit to the money, resources and underhand strategies that were used to secure convictions in this case.

This case was brought in an atmosphere of hostility against Muslims, at home, and abroad. One stoked by this government throughout the course of this case.

This prosecution involved extensive intrusion upon personal lives, not only ours, but our families and friends.

Coached witnesses were brought forward. Forced confessions were gained through illegal detention, and torture abroad. Threats and intimidation was used to hamper the truth. All with the trial judge seemingly intent to assist the prosecution almost every step of the way.

These were just some of the means used in the desperate effort to convict. Anyone looking impartially at the evidence would realise that there was no conspiracy to cause explosions in the UK, and that we did not pose any threat to the security of this country.

It is not an offence to be young, Muslim and angry at the global injustices against Muslims.

Allah says in the Qur'an, "Oh mankind, worship your Lord who created you, and those before you, that you may become righteous."

Thanks to BD & S - see comments.