Bombing evidence label 'changed'

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A scenes of crime officer has told the Omagh bomb trial a label on forensic evidence seems to have been changed.

The item is from a car bomb attack at Armagh police station in May 1998 - one of several bombings apart from Omagh which Sean Hoey is accused of.

Under cross-examination the officer admitted that someone seemed to have changed the date by writing over what he had originally put on the label.

Mr Hoey, who is from Jonesborough, denies all 58 charges against him.

The officer said he did not know who would have changed the label.

Mr Hoey, from Molly Road in the County Armagh town, faces charges relating to the murder of 29 people in Omagh in 1998 and more Real IRA attacks.

The proceedings are being broadcast in Omagh for the victims' families, under the same rules as would apply in court.

The link, between Belfast Crown Court and Omagh College was set up at the request of a relatives' support group and will be available for the duration of the trial.

The hearing continues.