Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly
One of the men held liable on a retrial for the Omagh bomb was denied a fair hearing due to the judge’s knowledge of previous evidence, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday.
Seamus Daly was linked by a call made on one of the mobile phones allegedly used by the Real IRA team who carried out the 1998 attack.
But his lawyers argued that a witness who took the call less than half-an-hour after the blast said it came from a man named Seamus Healy.
They claimed it was wrong to find that Denis O’Connor was actually referring to Daly.
Mary Higgins QC contended: “What happened in this case is that the judge was coloured. It’s the most likely explanation for why he interpreted Mr O’Connor’s evidence in the way he did.”
Daly, from Cullaville, Co Monaghan, and Colm Murphy, from Ravensdale, Dundalk, are appealing a second High Court verdict which identified overwhelming evidence of their connection to the massacre. The appeal continues.
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