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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
David Young

Omagh bomb inquiry chair refuses Government’s bid to redact civil servant names

Chairman of the Omagh Bombing Inquiry Lord Turnbull (Liam McBurney/PA) - (PA Archive)

The chairman of the Omagh Bombing Inquiry has rejected a bid by the Government to redact the names of junior civil servants in documents shared with other parties involved in the probe.

The Northern Ireland Office (NIO) had argued that junior members of the Civil Service had more expectation of privacy than senior civil servants and it had raised potential security concerns over sharing their names.

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