The Special Criminal Court is due to decide today whether the case against Mr Colm Murphy, the only man to be charged in relation to the Omagh bombing, can proceed.
A Garda forensic expert told the court yesterday a page of Garda interview notes with Mr Murphy had been rewritten.
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Mr Colm Murphy
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Mr Michael O'Higgins SC, defending, made an application to the three judges of the Court that the case against Mr Murphy be withdrawn on the basis of this evidence.
It was the 20th day of the trial of Mr Murphy (49), a building contractor and publican, from Co Armagh with an address at Jordan's Corner, Ravensdale, Co Louth.
He has pleaded not guilty to conspiring in Dundalk with another person not before the court to cause an explosion in the State or elsewhere between August 13th and 16th, 1998.
The prosecution alleges Mr Murphy lent his mobile phone and another mobile phone he obtained from an innocent person to the people who planted the Omagh bomb.
Evidence was given that 11 calls were made to and from a mobile phone belonging to Mr Murphy on August 15th, 1998, the day of the bombing.