Murphy launches new legal challenge to Omagh trial
Colm Murphy has launched a new legal challenge to his retrial on a conspiracy charge connected with the 1998 Real IRA bombing in Omagh, in which 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, died.
Lawyers for the accused say appeal papers have been lodged with the Supreme Court against a High Court ruling clearing the way for his retrial.
The High Court refused an application in October to halt Mr Murhpy's retrial for conspiracy offences connected with the Omagh bombing.
The 54-year-old Armagh man, of Jordan's Corner, Ravensdale in Co Louth, was jailed for 14 years in 2002 for his alleged role in the atrocity.
However, the Appeal Court quashed the conviction two years ago because the trial court failed to give proper regard to altered garda interview notes and because of an invasion of Murphy's presumption of innocence.
Today, his solicitor Michael Finucane told the Special Criminal Court that appeal papers were lodged with the Supreme Court last month and they're now awaiting a date for the hearing of the appeal against the High Court decision ordering his retrial to go ahead.
