Justice, of a sort

摘要

Twenty-nine dead; 220 injured; one man tried; no one ever convicted of the crime. Yet on June 8th the families of victims of the 1998 bombing in Omagh finally had the satisfaction of seeing someone held accountable-if only by a civil court. Sir Declan Morgan, who is expected to become Northern Ireland's new Lord Chief Justice this month, ruled that four of the five men being sued by 12 relatives were indeed liable or responsible for the atrocity, and awarded the plaintiffs damages of £1.6m ($2.6m). The evidence against the fifth was declared unreliable.