A SHAMELESS BETRAYAL... ; After the Omagh atrocity, Tony Blair promised the victims' families justice. To his everlasting disgrace, he never delivered. Raw with grief, the families vowed to confront the evil bombers who'd destroyed their lives ...

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FOR relatives of the 29 people and two unborn babies killed by the Omagh bomb, the words of Prime Minister Tony Blair brought some comfort. He promised that catching those responsible was his main priority. But increasingly one grieving father began to fear that Blair was more interested in the peace process than bringing the Omagh bombers to justice. In the third extract from a new book, we reveal how he wrote a thunderous letter to the Prime Minister, before launching the families' campaign -- funded in large part by our generous readers ...

THE immediate aftermath of the bombing of Omagh was a tsunami of sympathy. Prince Charles walked sadly through the rubble in the town centre where 29 people had been slaughtered and hundreds injured. Irish President Mary McAleese came from Dublin to denounce the bombers as 'off the Richter scale of decency'.

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A SHAMELESS BETRAYAL... ; After the Omagh atrocity, Tony Blair promised the victims' families justice. To his everlasting disgrace, he never delivered. Raw with grief, the families vowed to confront the evil bombers who'd destroyed their lives ...

Tony Blair declared he would go mad with grief if it were his children who had been among the two babies, five children and unborn twins murdered.

A Protestant minister summed up everyone's feelings when he described the killings as 'an act of medieval savagery' and spoke of 'the anguish, bitter grief and hot, hot tears' of the families. A Catholic bishop voiced his revulsion for the bombers: 'Shame on you for killing and maiming, shame on you for bringing so much pain into so many homes.'

Some were not totally taken in by the outpourings of shared grief. At the funeral of James, his 12-year-old son, Victor Barker had to endure the presencof Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. The Sinn Fein leaders were desp...

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