BRITISH spymasters never told detectives investigating the Omagh bomb that they had a secret recording of one of the killers confessing to his part in the 29 murders, it has been revealed today.
Three schoolboys from Buncrana – and two Spanish students visiting the Co Donegal town – were among those killed when Real IRA terrorists planted a bomb in the centre of the Tyrone town in August 1998.
Oran Doherty, who was just 8 and is pictured here and Sean McLaughlin (12) and James Barker (12) died in the outrage. Spanish student Fernando Blasco Baselga (12) and Rocio Abad Ramos, a group leader who were staying with local families in Buncrana at the time, also died.
The news website Belfast Daily is reporting today that Special Branch chiefs in Belfast have a secret telephone tape of the Omagh bomb-maker saying: “I’m sorry. I didn’t know this was going to happen.”
Police have never disclosed the existence of the tape to CID detectives hunting the RIRA killers or the families of 29 victims murdered on August 15, 1998.
Belfast Daily says that the Real IRA bombmaker’s landline and mobile phone numbers were being secretly monitored by the British Government’s massive GCHQ listening post in Cheltenham, England in the hours and days after the attack.
The news site names those targeted for electronic surveillance as Michael McKevitt, Liam Campbell and Seamus Daly.
A fourth man – Suspect A – was known to both RUC and Garda Special Branch as being a key member of the Real IRA’s bomb making department.
The full investigation is here:
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