Four more go on the run

UTV report that arrest warrants have been issued for the four men who, when they appeared in court in December last year, pleaded guilty to the attempted kidnapping of diissident republican Bobby Tohill from Kelly`s Cellar Bar in February 2004 – the very 1st IMC report stated there were indications that “the operation was one planned and undertaken by the Provisional IRA.” The arrest warrants were issued today when the men failed to appear in court for sentencing.. they had been released on bail in December. More in the Belfast Telegraph report and more hereFrom the 1st IMC report –

5.6 We have received information from a number of official and unofficial sources. We have carefully reviewed all of this material. We are conscious that we are not bound by the strict rules of evidence and that the material has not been subject to the testing one could expect in a criminal trial. We do however believe this material, taken as a whole, indicates that the operation was one planned and undertaken by the Provisional IRA.

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