Liam Campbell

Liam Campbell is an Irish republican from Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland.

His brother Sean died in December 1975, when a landmine he was preparing for an attack on the British Army exploded prematurely. His other brother Peter served 14 years in prison for Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) offences. His brother Michael is due to go on trial in Vilnius, Lithuania, accused of trying to purchase arms and explosives for the Real IRA. Liam Campbell first came to the attention of the British and Irish security forces in the early 1980s and became the subject of an exclusion order in 1983 barring him from entering Northern Ireland.

Campbell was named by the BBC as one of the perpetrators of the 1998 Omagh bombing in Panorama documentary. He never faced criminal charges but was found liable for the bombing in a civil trial, along with Michael McKevitt, Colm Murphy and Seamus Daly. The case, brought by relatives of the 29 victims, resulted in an award of combined damages of over £1.5m. In May 2004 he was convicted by a court in the Republic of Ireland for membership of the Real IRA and was sentenced to eight years imprisonment. He is currently wanted by Lithuania on terrorism and arms charges and is the subject of a European arrest warrant. He was arrested in Northern Ireland in May 2009 and is in the process of being extradited to Lithuania.