The trial was adjourned last November after one of the three judges, Judge Mary O' Halloran, became ill. The prosecution is alleging that Mr Murphy lent his mobile phone and another mobile phone he obtained from an innocent party to the people who planted the Omagh bomb. Earlier in the trial Detective Garda James B Hanley told the court that Murphy had admitted in interviews that he lent his mobile phone to known republicans, knowing it would be used for moving bombs.
On November 14th last Mr Morgan said that he worked as a bricklayer for the accused. He said that the RUC had seized a Nokia mobile phone belonging to him when they searched his house in February, Mr Morgan said he remembered August 14th, , the day before the Omagh bombing.
He said that he had his mobile phone with him that day when he was blocklaying at Dublin City University. He said he "gave a loan" of his phone to Colm Murphy. He said he got his phone back on the following Monday or Tuesday. Sign up to to get the latest news direct to your inbox daily at 1pm. Puzzles hub. The gunmen were believed to have escaped over the border, with the getaway van discovered in Co Louth the following day.
No-one has ever been convicted. The HET named six men charged with other offences involving the weapons used at Kingmill, but Colm Murphy was not among them. Loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson claimed this week that the Co Armagh-born republican had played a role in the attack and that those responsible were protected.
However, speaking to the Irish News yesterday, the year-old said while he was arrested at the time, his name was only ever linked to Kingsmill in recent years.
Jailed for 14 years in for conspiracy to cause an explosion after it was alleged he lent mobile phones to the gang who planted the Omagh bomb, Murphy won an appeal against his conviction three years later. He was also found liable with others for the Real IRA atrocity in a landmark civil case brought by victims' relatives.
The scene after the August Omagh bomb atrocity. Mr Justice Gillen also drew an adverse inference against Murphy in light of his failure to give evidence or call any witnesses to explain the presence of the phone in Omagh, or for that matter in Banbridge on the day of that bombing.
He said this strengthened the overall evidence against Murphy and satisfied him, taking all the factors cumulatively, that he should make a finding in favour of the plaintiffs against Colm Murphy on the grounds of trespass to the person. Omagh town centre seconds before bomb went off. Spanish father and son picture miraculously survived the attack. He said he could find no credible explanation why Daly failed to go into the witness box as he could have provided an explanation why he was in possession of the phone on the day of the Omagh bombing or why his phone was present in Lisburn on the date of the Lisburn bombing.
Alternatively he could have called evidence which would have strengthened the alibi for his movements on 15 August that he gave to the police. Mr Justice Gillen concluded on the basis of the evidence that he was satisfied that Daly was liable in this action to the plaintiffs on the grounds of trespass to the person. Friday 14 January
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