By Adrian Mullan
INTELLIGENCE Services sabotaged the Omagh Bomb case against Sean Hoey by tampering with key evidential exhibits, according a relative of one of the 31 people killed in the atrocity.
Carol Radford, a sister of Alan Radford who was murdered in the blast, claims the investigation has been 'a farce' and a 'waste of money' from the start because both governments were protecting the mass murderers for their own political ends.
She said she bore no ill will towards the police or towards the, now retired, senior police officer in charge of the inquiry, Norman Baxter. "The police had their hands tied. The political situation interfered with justice for Omagh."
"That investigation never had a chance. We are now living with appeasement even though our families have been massacred. Omagh has now been put in the archive boxes. But they murdered my brother and I'm not going to let them walk away from that. The people who did it are being protected, it's disgusting that they can get away with it.
"As far as I'm concerned there never was an investigation. It was like baking a cake without using flour - it's not going to succeed. But we'll keep banging on about it."
She continued, "There was so much intelligence before the attack, and we're not relying on the Panorama programme. David Rupert, (the FBI operative who infiltrated the real IRA) said in April that Omagh was going to be attacked. He was sending thousands of e-mails saying so."
She went on to say that a check-point at Aughnacloy that had been removed a short time after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, would have detected the car.
"There were 12 Real-IRA attacks from January to August 1998. They (The authorities) allowed it to happen. I can't believe that it couldn't have been stopped.
"It's a joke among the families that the Real IRA have so many informers. These people are feeding through so much information, it could have been prevented, but our families have been sacrificed and the governments gave us false hope."
Carol said that Intelligence services had tampered with evidence in the Hoey trial. She said that a timing power unit from another incident, with strong DNA on it, was sent for analysis to Birmingham in good order but when it came back it had a big ball of black tape sticking to it. She said other exhibits went missing and bags supposed to contain evidence were turning up empty.
"There were too many mistakes, intelligence services overdid it with their tampering and it's unforgivable. They always say, we 'mustn't take the blame off the perpetrators.' I know who planted the bomb in that car. If these people (intelligence services) are going to protect the perpetrators I'm going to have to go after the protector.
"My brother was murdered. If a paedophile had murdered my brother I wouldn't have to justify myself."
