Two senior PSNI officers have denied they played key roles in the inquiry into the Omagh bombing. The two officers have provided affidavits which will be used by the Police Ombudsman office to defend the report into the Omagh bomb investigation.
The affidavits, said to have been made by assistant chief constable Alan McQuillan and Sam Kincaid, are understood to contradict a third affidavit made by Raymond White, former head of the Special Branch and CID.
The two affidavits are thought to concentrate on the issue of who had command of the investigation into the bombing.
The affidavits will come as a blow to the former Chief Constable, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, who publicly criticised Police Ombudsman Nuala O’Loan’s report into the atrocity which concluded the judgement and leadership of Sir Ronnie Flanagan and the assistant chief constable of the crime division was "seriously flawed".