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Hoey in court over drink-drive charge

The man cleared of the Omagh bombing has appeared in court charged with drink driving.

Sean HoeySean Hoey, 39, had alcohol in excess of the legal limit in his system when he was stopped by police in his home village of Jonesborough, south Armagh, earlier this month, Newry Magistrates’ Court heard.

Standing in the dock, he did not speak during his brief appearance, nodding only to acknowledge he understood the charge against him.

A PSNI officer told Magistrate Paul Copeland that he could connect Hoey, from Molly Road, Jonesborough, with the offence on the nearby Finegans Road on July 5.

Mr Copeland ordered the electrician, who was fuller in face than during the marathon Omagh trial of two years ago, to appear before him again next month for a further hearing.

In December 2007, Hoey was acquitted in Belfast Crown Court of murdering the 29 people who died in the Real IRA bombing in August 1998.

He was also cleared of 26 other charges linked to a series of dissident republican attacks in the months around Omagh.

In his judgment, Mr Justice Weir strongly criticised the case presented by the prosecution during the 56 day trial, accusing police of handling forensic evidence in a thoughtless and slapdash manner.

No one has ever been successfully criminally prosecuted for the atrocity.

Last month four men were found liable for the bombing in a landmark civil case taken by the families and ordered to pay millions in compensation.

After Wednesday’s hearing in Newry, Hoey left court alone.

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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